Stafford Cripps Quotes

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

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

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

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.

This is not going to be decided by public opinion polls. It is a national security issue.

The next President's National Security Advisor ought to be an economist, instead of the usual military officer or arms control expert.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

There is only one way safely and legitimately to reduce the cost of national security, and that is to reduce the need for it.

Military security and a policy of detente are not contradictory but complementary.

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

What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

Nineteen people flew into the towers. It seems hard for me to imagine that we could go to war enough to make the world safe enough that nineteen people wouldn't want to do harm to us. So it seems like we have to rethink a strategy that is less military-based.

In America, we believe in peace through strength, and that's what we will have.

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.