Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

I believe in peace through strength. I would prefer to rely on the military rather than diplomats to protect our homes.

Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.

The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people.

Keep America strong. Strong in our values, strong in our economy, and strong in our military might. We hope to never have to use our military strength, but the world counts on a strong America to keep the worst actors from doing the worst things.

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

We have to defend America and be strong.

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

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.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.

The Defense Department has a great deal of influence on foreign policy, and State has very little impact on defense policy.

Let no one expect us to disarm unilaterally. We are not a naive people.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

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

As long as we can outproduce the world, can control the sea and can strike inland with the atomic bomb, we can assume certain risks otherwise unacceptable in an effort to restore world trade, to restore the balance of power —military power—and to eliminate some of the conditions which breed war.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

A nation, in order to be secure in its defense, has to be stronger than its potential enemy. Then what becomes of the defense of the other? Is he to have none?

Shall we be defenseless America, a weak and harmless nation, or shall we be defensive America, the fear and dread of all nations?

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