Norman Angell Quotes

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

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

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

The military capabilities of the United States need to be kept comfortably superior to those of present and potential enemies. But they should be measured relatively, against those enemies’ capabilities, and not against the limit of what is technologically possible or based on some vague urge to have more.

If any county achieves absolute security, then all the rest of the countries around them have absolute insecurity.

The European NATO Counties are not interested in being liberated after 6 months of fighting on their territory. They are only interested in preventing the initial attack.

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

I think you believe in these words, I think - three very important words, peace through strength, right. Peace through strength.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.

When two giants meet with each other, when there is too little room for them on the world's surface, they try to measure their strength in order to decide by war the debatable question of hegemony.

For every security measure, there is a counter measure that breeds further insecurity. The acquisition by Pakistan or Iran of a nuclear capability neutralizes the security achieved by Israel’s own nuclear capability. Non-governmental terrorism neutralizes governmental military superiority. Chemical weapons neutralize the security of cement walls.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

The duty of defense is maintain peace and avoid war.

Without power, without a strong army and a strong navy, there can be no welfare for us .... The German nation will be either the hammer or the anvil.

Local defenses must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can only be preserved by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

The distinction between preparations made with the intention of going to war and preparations against attack is it true distinction, clear and definite than the mind of those who build up armaments. But it is a distinction that is not obvious or certain to others. The moral is obvious: it is that that armaments lead inevitably to war.

Today the Great Powers openly emphasize the League of Nations while behind the scenes they steadily expand their military armaments. We cannot dismiss as the foolish talk of idiots those who predict the outbreak after 1936 of a second world war. We must be prepared …