Edward Grey Quotes

In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

Deterrence is to prevent war, not to win a war.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

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

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can only be preserved by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Wars are most often won by those who have made the greatest effort to prevent them.

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

Deterrence is a strategy for combining two competing goals: Countering an enemy and avoiding war.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.