Collective Security Quotes

• We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Long, Principles

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• Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

  Elliott Abrams

  Sanctions, Form, Collectives

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• Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred duty to my people, but standing guard in the last citadel of collective security? Are they too blind to see that I have my responsibilities to the whole of humanity to face? I must still hold on until my tardy allies appear. And if they never come, then I say prophetically and without bitterness: The West will perish.

  Haile Selassie

  Responsibility, Fighting, Civilization

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• Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Lying, League

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Hydra, Monsters

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

  Winston Churchill

  Sheep, Way, Flocks

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• Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

  William Safire

  President, Principles, Different

  "The Right Resolution" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. February 17, 2003.

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• The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Our Generation, Leader, Challenges

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• Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the institutional structures that support them are now relegated to the imperatives of privatization, deregulation, flexibility and short-term profits.

  Henry Giroux

  Long, People, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually a point-by-point rebuttal of her husband's foreign policy. We need collective security. We need a World Court. We need something like the League of Nations. We need to work together to fight fascism. We need embargoes against aggressor nations, and we need to name aggressor nations. All of which is a direct contradiction of FDR's policies.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Husband, Book, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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