[spanalot]

Good citizens sleep peacefully because rough men stand ready in the night....

(or something like that).

[rottndog]

“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” - credited to George Orwell

[Red_Devil 232]

You are close ...

Here is the quote it is by George Orwell

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." GEORGE ORWELL

[BluH2o]

... it seems there are some who’re determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing’s worth war.
But how can they know lest they’ve been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who’ll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation’s call.

The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand, To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won’t defend,
So their own unearned freedom won’t perish, won’t end.

To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in
the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

George Orwell (1903 - 1950)