(7 quotes found)
“That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.”
Chester W. Nimitz
“Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments -- a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.”
William Jennings Bryan
“We discourage the armaments up here because it's not necessary on the northern border.”
Claude LeBas
“The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.”
Edward Grey
“We expressed our views that the presence of armed personnel and armaments outside the camps is not necessary and not helpful, ... As for the presence of armed personnel within the camps, this is going to be looked at in order to organize it.”
Fouad Siniora
“Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically”
Pope Paul VI
“We will have the same basic military situation at a higher and higher level of armament which I don't think does a lot of good for anybody and certainly doesn't foster the sort of peaceful resolution of the issues there which we want to maintain,”
C. Blair
