Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes

War is but an instrument of international policy.

People do not make wars; governments do.

The duty of defense is maintain peace and avoid war.

The [foreign] policy of the United States is modeled on interventionism and aggression. It is logical that we should always be very suspicious.

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.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

You help us pay for the war we’ll fight; we’ll launch it while you’re asleep at night. We don’t need friends all around the world; We’ll buy our friends with our flag unfurled, And spread our arms on a global scale To show the world that we still prevail. Oh, we’re not leaders inspiring peace, But we’re in power as the world’s police. So pay your tax for our little war, And we’ll not ask for any more. This year!

Security provided by peace treaties is preferable to security enforced by troops.

Judging from the spirit which seems more and more to dominate our European allies, I am beginning to despair that the war will accomplish much more than the abolition of German militarism while leaving European militarism as rampant as ever.

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon shots.

One of the great advances of our time is the recognition that one of the ways to prevent war is to deter it by having the will and the capacity to use force to punish the aggressor.

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

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.