Tacitus Quotes

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.

No state, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.

The public was entirely free of the great danger and expense of a standing army.

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

We need to spend more money to insure that our troops are properly equipped.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Throughout this vast republic from the St. Croix to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, revenue is to be collected and expended; armies are to be marched and supported. The exigencies of the nation may require that the treasure raised in the north should be transported to the South.

There is no better constraint on the leader of a developing country than telling him that he has to pay cash for his weapons.

It is necessarily requisite to the peoples defense, that they be fore-armed. Now to be fore-armed is to be furnished with Soldiers, Armies, Ships, Forts and Monies, before the danger be instant; for the listing of Soldiers, and taking up of Arms after a blow is given, is too late at least, if not impossible.

Wars cost money.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them, so they're a necessary evil

Party conferences don't purchase fighter jets.

Balanced budgets have a lot to do with National Defense.

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money