Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Great armaments lead inevitably to war.

Every nation must have some degree of military organization, even among the most peaceful peoples. The possession of armament however, no matter how necessary, breeds suspicion, fear, counter-armament and hate.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

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.

Armament firms have been active in fomenting war scares and in persuading their own countries to increase their armaments.

Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

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

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions.

Definitely, I am not advocating an arms race.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

This is an era of violent peace.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

How can you persuade a paranoid adversary to disarm by example?

Peace and stability cannot be achieved by means of nuclear weapons.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.