Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

Israel has the power to protect itself and its citizens.

We never want to expand our borders... but I can say that our security forces and defence forces possess all the might to protect our borders.

If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.

Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.

It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.

America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a trillion dollars in cuts through sequestration and budget cuts to the military would change that.

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

We have the best-trained military in the world.

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.