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Quotes About Security

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
~ John F. Kennedy
In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.
~ Giulio Douhet
So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
~ E. Howard Hunt
Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.
~ William Appleman Williams
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
~ John F. Kennedy
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
~ Lindsey Graham
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.
~ Alfred Adler
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
~ Norman Cousins
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
~ Thomas Friedman
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
~ Ludwig Quidde
Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.
~ George W. Bush
The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.
~ Anwar Sadat
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.
~ Kenneth Waltz
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
~ Owen Arthur
The best armor is to keep out of range.
~ Abraham J. Twerski
The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.
~ Roger Sherman
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
~ Brendan Behan
The cause of war is preparation for war.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.
~ Poul Hartling
The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali