Ehud Olmert Quotes

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

We must maintain strong defenses, military and spiritual.

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.

I will work hard to ensure Hawaii's strategic position in our national security remains strong.

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.

The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

Against … attack the existing peacetime forces of the Army and Navy in the Hawaiian islands, including their necessary munitions and supplies, are believed to be adequate. The success of our defense against this form of attack will depend almost wholly upon our not being totally surprised by the enemy, and will require an efficient intelligence service, not only in the Hawaiian Islands but elsewhere.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

The Commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription, "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.

The military strength and resources of the State must be reserved for its own defense and protection exclusively …

This is a hard country to defend.

Moscow believes that using force constitutes strategic defense.

The best way to attack is to defend well.

The National Defense Strategy remains our guiding document, and everything we do should support its stated objectives.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

It's only by investing properly in our defense that we can ensure we're properly equipped to face our shared challenges together.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . . . . If one nation maintains constantly a disciplined army, ready for service of ambition or revenge, it obliges the most pacific nations who may be within the reach of its enterprises to take corresponding precautions.

As part of my pledge to restore safety for the American people, I have also directed the defense community to develop a plan to totally obliterate ISIS. Working with our allies, we will eradicate this evil from the face of the Earth.