Emma Goldman Quotes

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

We shall rear them as needed for the Fatherland.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.

The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.

I will not back down from defending America. I got elected on defense of our country. I keep my campaign promises, and our citizens will be very happy when they see the result.

We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.

We have to defend America and be strong.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

If NATO troops will come with ground forces, I will be the first volunteer in the Yugoslav army to defend my country, my family, my children.

Defending one’s state against external aggression is indeed the ultimate test of citizenship.

We don't want to fight, But, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men We've got the money too.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Never should the word peace fall from the mouths of our highest officials.... With such a country as ours, with her vast areas ... her immense natural resources, and her hundreds of millions of inhabitants, if all would prove their loyalty to their emperor and love of their country, what indeed is there to fear from any strong invader? Let us not think of making peace, nor rely solely upon diplomatic maneuvers.

There is no such thing as a line of defense. Only an area to defend. That area consists of the entire Motherland. Not one inch of our country can be abandoned unless drenched with the blood of its people.

The military is arguably the most significant social institution in our country.

God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?