Winston Churchill and George Orwell have both been attributed with saying “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us”.
Rudyard Kipling in 1890, in his poem Tommy, condemned people “making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep”.
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