- "Protection is not a principle but an expedient."
- "Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves."
- "Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
- "A man without a vote is man without protection."
- "Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"