Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.
All things are ready, if our mind be so.
We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.
The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.
so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.
Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.
Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.
There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
When the devil is shouting 'no way', get ready. . . the way is about to show up.
We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
[Donald] Trump's establishing his bona fides on military preparedness. No histrionics, just the facts.
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.
