Mark Twain Quotes

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

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

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

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.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

There are no militarist adventuristic groups in USSR as among dominating classes in certain other countries where dangerous talk of "third world war" is being encouraged by foul imperialists. True supporters of peace will find real and faithful ally in USSR. This does not mean that our concern for the maintenance of our Armed Forces will diminish. Our Government and Red Army leaders are doing everything to assure that our Army is second to no other Army as regards newest types of armament.

The possession of highly developed armed forces by small nations is disastrous in all its consequences.

A nation’s capacity for compromise decreases as its re-armament increases.

At a period like the present, when momentous changes are occurring and every hour is preparing new and great events in the political world, when a spirit of war is prevalent in almost every nation with whose affairs the interests of the United States have any connection, unsafe and precarious would be our situation were we to neglect the means of maintaining our just rights.

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.

We will not negotiate with anyone about our weapons and defenses, and we will make and store as many weapons, facilities, and missiles as we need.

The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

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

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.