Evan Thomas Quotes

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people.

This is not going to be decided by public opinion polls. It is a national security issue.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

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

I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

We don't go to war on narrow, partisan votes.

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

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

We have to rearrange in our minds what defense actually means. Does it mean you're going to try to protect the boundaries of a piece of land, or does it mean you're going to try to help the people on that piece of land to live a better life?

No war is exactly like another.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

The Pentagon is always going to be the last to want to intervene. It is up to the civilians to tell us what they want to do and we’ll figure out how to do it.

There is no issue of greater importance to the U.S. Senate than war and peace.

I believe in peace through strength. I would prefer to rely on the military rather than diplomats to protect our homes.

We talk a great deal about war and do nothing.

Every aspect of war is political.

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

One war at a time.

The next time some neocon, demanding whatever military intervention neocons are demanding that day, invokes Hitler or Munich or appeasement, lock up your silver.