Disarmament Quotes

If the Palestinians lay down their weapons, there will be peace. If the Israelis lay down their weapons, there will be a massacre.

The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

I would like to see invented a substance or a machine with such terrible power of mass destruction that war would thereby be made impossible forever.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

I would die for my country ... but I would not let my country die for me.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.

No trusting without testing

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue peace ... Don't ever defend. Always attack.

Our ultimate goal is that Iran never have a nuclear bomb.

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

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Atoms for Peace

We have never practiced the policy of competitive armaments.

Trust but verify. Doveryai no proveryai.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

If I am called an appeaser because I oppose the country’s entry into the present war, I gladly accept the title.

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

To disarm the people—that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.

It is often pacifists who, halting and stumbling and not knowing whither they are going, finally drift helplessly into a war.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.