About Quote by Don Nickles

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

— Timothy Noah

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against…

— Don Nickles

The first responsibility of any just government is to defend the defenseless.

— Mike Johnson

The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can't do that if some of those…

— Lloyd Austin

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

— Don Nickles

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the…

— Angus King

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Joseph Sobran

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

— John Conyers

Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.

— Thomas Jefferson

It's the role of a government to defend its soldiers and its citizens.

— Ehud Barak