Herb London Quotes

There is no need to fear Russia's actions, they are not aggressive... They are aimed at maintaining balance in the world order, and are extremely important for maintaining peace and security globally.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

I built a nuclear option to get peace, not to have bombs. Our enemies learned that they could not destroy us.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

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.

The nuclear threat is a direct product of the cult of force that has dominated the world for centuries.

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

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

There is only one thing worse than one nation having the atomic bomb -- that's two nations having it.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

The goal [of disarmament] is no longer a dream. It is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race...

The way to win an atomic war is to make sure it never starts.

For four hundred years the foreign policy of England has to oppose the strongest, most aggressive, most dominating Power on the Continent …

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