Eni Faleomavaega Quotes

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

When you’ve got enough firepower, you win wars.

War is the science of destruction.

War is the trade of Kings.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

The world hates us, but the bottom line is we're gonna have to show the world why they hate us by bombing the hell out of some people that have been hurting us. That's all. That's the end of it.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.