Armament: Hand I said, but ARMAMENT.

These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition…

— Samuel Johnson

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary…

— Richard Hough

What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use…

— Jacques Chirac

For ISIS, the answer is to cut off their food, their water, their armaments, you know, and their funding. I don't mean literally their…

— Jill Stein

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not…

— Anatole France

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

— Herbert Hoover

This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is…

— Mira Grant

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary,…

— Frank B. Kellogg

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness,…

— Connie Foster

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be…

— Stanley Baldwin

A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement…

— Leon Trotsky

In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to…

— John T. Flynn

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found…

— Thomas Jefferson

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

— Ludwig Quidde