“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders”

“What really matters in the game among nations is national strength and military capability to maintain national security, to preserve the integrity of the national territory, to protect and promote national interest, and to uphold national sovereignty and honor of the nation. Nothing less and nothing more.”

“the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.”

“A nation may be moved by its statesmen and defined by its military but it's usually remembered for its artists.”

“he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.”

“The greatness of a nation is not the military power to enforce its will upon others, but rather its capacity to inspire high ideals and a humanizing spirit.”