Joseph Story Quotes

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to the finish before going ahead with our construction. If you are afraid of war day in day out, what will you do if war eventually comes? First, I said that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind and war will not break out, and now I have added these explanations about the situation in case war should break out. Both possibilities have thus been taken into account.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

I am convinced there is no more effective method of preventing a war than a decisive stance illustrating that we are ready at any moment to repel possible attack.

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

In time of peace prepare for war.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

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

The Commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription, "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.

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