Chris Gibson Quotes

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

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

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.

I believe in peace through strength.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

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

One of the great advances of our time is the recognition that one of the ways to prevent war is to deter it by having the will and the capacity to use force to punish the aggressor.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can only be preserved by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

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

Deterrence is to prevent war, not to win a war.

We must not force an adversary into a choice between humiliating defeat and nuclear war.

A nation, in order to be secure in its defense, has to be stronger than its potential enemy. Then what becomes of the defense of the other? Is he to have none?

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

Deterrence is a strategy for combining two competing goals: Countering an enemy and avoiding war.

I am convinced there is no more effective method of preventing a war than a decisive stance illustrating that we are ready at any moment to repel possible attack.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.