Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Clearly, we need a strong economy to build a strong military.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy.

Poland not only has a capable military but also is strong economically and does not need money being raised for it.

We need a strong, vibrant economy to produce the tax revenue to fund our military.

We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

At the present time we are keeping our military expenditures below the…minimum which would in themselves ensure national security. By doing so we are able to increase our expenditures to assist in European recovery.

In the long run the security of the United States is protected by economic strength. In the short run, military strength, in the long run economic.

We will plant our flag on the hill of economic security.

The military capabilities of the United States need to be kept comfortably superior to those of present and potential enemies. But they should be measured relatively, against those enemies’ capabilities, and not against the limit of what is technologically possible or based on some vague urge to have more.

Every dollar needlessly spent on our military … diminishes our overall security.

Without economic security, we cannot have national security.

Japan is the only country in the world that does not call its defense organizations a military. That is absurd, when the government is spending 5 trillion yen a year for self-defense.

I have spoken to Donald Trump about this. He understands the dramatic budget cuts our military has faced.

U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.

America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.

We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.