>> You can sleep peacefully ... your children are safe in their beds ...
See the link below for a fascinating discussion on this (the original quote is often attributed to George Orwell). And be sure to look up the complete Rudyard Kipling brilliant “Tommy” poem.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/
You're absolutely right, QB, these are wise remarks:
"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."In these dangerous times--when powerful people of inferior intellect and sloppy morality seek to deprive us of safety and the ability to protect our children and ourselves from violent, cruel, depraved, and evil criminals--we find that we ourselves must be the rough men standing ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm--and what's even more terrifying: the knaves and fools who have placed us in such jeopardy will, if they can, actually prevent us from protecting ourselves and our children!"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
How vile these people are whose hubris and intellectual and moral inferiority would threaten us so!
Vile knaves and fools have certainly seized great power in the dangerous world of the 21st century!
They must be stopped at all costs!