"Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians"

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value"

"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one"

"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass"

"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded"

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"