Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.
~ Oliver Cromwell, to his troops at Marston Moor on July 2, 1644

There cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli, in The Prince

When princes think more of luxury than of arms, they lose their state.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli, in The Prince

It is war that shapes peace, and armament that shapes war.
~ J.F.C Fuller, in Armament and History

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love for peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns.
~ Paul Joseph Goebbels, in a Berlin speech on January 17, 1936

It is customary in democratic countries to deplore expenditures on armaments as conflicting with the requirements of the social services. There is at tendency to forget that the most important social service that a government can do for its people is to keep them alive and free.
~ John Slessor, in Strategy For the West

Only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed.
~ John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

The Country must have a large and efficient army, one capable of meeting the enemy abroad, or they must expect to meet him at home.
~ The Duke of Wellington, in a letter on January 28, 1811

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