Quotes of Disarmament - somelinesforyou

“ If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament — disarmament follows peace. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament. ”

- Jerry Hall

“ The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made. ”

- Aristide Briand

“ Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is… everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. ”

- Tony Blair

“ If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap. ”

- Richard Butler

“ Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament. ”

- Jacques Chirac

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ”

- Arthur Henderson

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

- Arthur Henderson

“ We favor resolving the issue would be a mistake with the most serious consequences, leading to casualties and the destabilization of the international situation as a whole. ”

- Vladimir Putin

“ The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ We concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. Many nations have voiced a commitment to peace and security, and now they must demonstrate that commitment to peace and security in the only effective way: by supporting the immediate and unconditional disarmament of Saddam Hussein. ”

- George W. Bush

“ The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race. ”

- Arthur Henderson

“ The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order,,,between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. ”

- Arthur Henderson
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