Army Quote by Horace Mann

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

— Horace Mann

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor…

— James Madison

“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

— Jonathan Sacks

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training…

— John Fowles

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

— Kofi Annan

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

— B. Carroll Reece

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

— Christian Lous Lange

The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve…

— Ferdinand Foch

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

— Edmund Burke

“Schools train you to be ignorant with style [...] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs…

— Frank Zappa