Quotes About Security

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

We have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about.

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The next World War will be over water

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

A world without war is not in the cards.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.