Paul Cook Quotes

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

When America is stronger, the world is safer.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.

We must have universal military training because the one hope for a peaceful world is a powerful America… with adequate means to instantly check aggressors.

Keep America strong. Strong in our values, strong in our economy, and strong in our military might. We hope to never have to use our military strength, but the world counts on a strong America to keep the worst actors from doing the worst things.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

The world needs a strong America.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Only by decisions of national policy based upon accurate information can we have the chance that peace will endure.

As long as we can outproduce the world, can control the sea and can strike inland with the atomic bomb, we can assume certain risks otherwise unacceptable in an effort to restore world trade, to restore the balance of power —military power—and to eliminate some of the conditions which breed war.

We especially ought to pray that the powers of Europe be so poised and counterpoised among themselves that their own security may require the presence of all their forces at home leaving the other parts of the world in undisturbed tranquility.

Shall we be defenseless America, a weak and harmless nation, or shall we be defensive America, the fear and dread of all nations?

But in a world of high tension and disorder, in a world where stable civilization is actually threatened, it becomes the responsibility of each nation which strives for peace at home and peace with and among others to be strong enough to assure the observance of those fundamentals of peaceful solution of conflicts which are the only ultimate basis for orderly existence.

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world's policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.

For a long time, perhaps too long, we believed that the world around us would become more and more peaceful, and the order more stable.

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.