Character Quote by Elihu Root

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

— Ramsay MacDonald

Disarmament requires trust.

— Gustav Heinemann

Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first…

— Ludwig Quidde

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment…

— Ludwig Quidde

We really are at the crossroads and [disarmament] will happen if people of goodwill all over the world raise their voices and take action…

— Jody Williams

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

— Alva Myrdal

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish…

— John F. Kennedy

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Ludwig Quidde

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in…

— Dalai Lama

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of…

— Arthur Henderson