Adam LeBor Quotes

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

Security is an underlining interest of Israel.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

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

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

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

If the United States were attacked by rockets from one of our neighboring countries, we would be a lot tougher on them than Israel has been on the Palestinians. When we were attacked, we sent an army abroad and took over Afghanistan from the Taliban.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

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

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

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.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

The Jew seeks space to continue living, while the Arab defends his space to the death.

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

This battle will decide who will rule Asia.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.