Billy Hughes Quotes

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

A commonwealth then is so far independent, as it can plan and provide against oppression by another, and so far dependent on another commonwealth, as it fears that other's power

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

Our security and sovereignty stand together.

As governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies.

India has never played politics with national security.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

America needs to be secure at home and abroad.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

It is essential in the highest interests, not merely of this country, but of the world, that Britain should at all hazards maintain her place and her prestige amongst the Great Powers of the world. Her potent influence has many a time been in the past, and may yet be in the future, invaluable to the cause of human liberty. It has more than once in the past redeemed Continental nations, who are sometimes too apt to forget that service, from overwhelming disaster and even from national extinction

Empire can only be achieved with satisfaction, or maintained with advantage, provided it has a moral basis.

Our neutrality is our security.

There is no safety where there is no strength.

Although she [America] might have had pressing provocations, yet she ought to have looked to this country as the guardian power to which she was indebted not only for her comforts, not only for her rank in the scale of civilization but for her very existence.

Security and peace are not cheap.

America’s military bases around the world are centers of stability in unstable regions.

The politician, who measures the interests of his country by her preponderance in the scale of empire, regards all consideration of individual happiness as a weakness.

No great power will allow itself to be strangulated.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.