David Kay Quotes

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years … and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home … to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

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

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

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

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

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

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

The duty of defense is maintain peace and avoid war.

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

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

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

The purpose of an intelligence service is to avoid war, not to promote one.

America’s fundamental aspiration is the preservation of peace…. This can only be done on the basis of comprehensive and appropriate information.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

Are there topics of sufficient import to the nation's well-being to replace the Soviets as the focus of U.S. intelligence?

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

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

There are no militarist adventuristic groups in USSR as among dominating classes in certain other countries where dangerous talk of "third world war" is being encouraged by foul imperialists. True supporters of peace will find real and faithful ally in USSR. This does not mean that our concern for the maintenance of our Armed Forces will diminish. Our Government and Red Army leaders are doing everything to assure that our Army is second to no other Army as regards newest types of armament.

We’re not going to win this war through polling.