Weapons Quotes - Page 24

• The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!

  Dave Lindorff

  Country, Children, War

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• Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon the outlawing of the cross-bow by Papal authority. Setting up the machinery for international law and order must surely precede disarmament. The Wild West did not abandon its shooting irons till after sheriffs and courts were established.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  War, Nice, Thinking

  "Army's Atomic Bid Viewed in Making". Speech, American Library Association Conference (3 Jul 1947), New York Times, Jule 4, 1947.

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• If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite or they will perish.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War, Science, Names

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance speech for Army-Navy "Excellence" Award, November 16, 1945.

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• The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  War, Believe, Optimistic

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• The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Destiny, Race

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• This weapon [the atomic bomb] has added an additional responsibility - or, better, an additional incentive - to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found.

  Leslie Groves

  War, Responsibility, Science

  "Gen. Groves Warns on Atom 'Suicide'". Opening address of Town Hall's annual lecture series (November 7, 1945) in "The New York Times", November 8, 1945.

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• This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Sacrifice, Use

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.13, Bottom of the Hill

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• From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Gun, Useless

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.15, Bottom of the Hill

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• Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a gentleman dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Appreciate, Gentleman

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.10, Bottom of the Hill

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• A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.

  Martin Luther

  War, Safe, Shields

  'Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott' (1529) translation by Thomas Carlyle

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• Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Formidable, Efficient

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• Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Children, Fighting

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• Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of the flesh. Because the conflict is spiritual so must the weapons.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Prayer, Reality

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.94, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gone, Slavery, Violence

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• My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

  John McCain

  Real, Greatest Fear, Organization

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Extremist Groups, Nuclear, World

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• The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.

  Dick Cheney

  Cities, Groups, Nuclear

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• I think, in fact, the situation with respect to al Qaeda, to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11, but it's not likely again, I just think that's dead wrong. I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think al Qaeda is out there even as we meet, trying to figure out how to do that.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Trying, United States

  "Biden vs. Cheney: Battle of the Vice Presidents". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2010.

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• The thing that keeps me awake at night is a nexus between terrorism and massive destruction...the possibility that a terrorist organization could either acquire a ready-made weapon or fabricate something improvised that would have a catastrophic effect for us.

  Michele Flournoy

  Night, Organization, Terrorism

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• We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Easter, Mass Destruction, Violence

  "Mubarak: Arabs to Fight 'Scourge of Terrorism'". Joint News Conference with President Bush, edition.cnn.com. June 03, 2003.

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• The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Support, United States

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• The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Dirty, Naughty

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• ... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strong, Law, Justice

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.62, Best Books on

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• Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion of moral values, and so on. As a result, many other concerns have come to the fore: peace, contentment, ecology, justice, tolerance, and dialogue. Unfortunately, despite certain promising precautions, those who should be tackling these problems tend to do so by seeking further ways to conquer and control nature and produce more lethal weapons.

  Fethullah Gulen

  War, Erosion, Air

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• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Stars, Disappointment, Father

  "An Introduction to Mathematics" by Alfred North Whitehead, Ch. 1, 1911.

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