George W. Norris Quotes

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

We want a rocket-free country. That’s what we want.

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Disarment ... is a continuing imperative.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

Peace and stability cannot be achieved by means of nuclear weapons.

Every nation must have some degree of military organization, even among the most peaceful peoples. The possession of armament however, no matter how necessary, breeds suspicion, fear, counter-armament and hate.

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream? To answer, yes, is to despair for the future of mankind.

There is an urgent need for disarmament of all kinds, but especially nuclear disarmament.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.