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In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them. -- Albert Speer
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. -- Alva Myrdal
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. -- Ahmed Yassin
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world. -- Frank B. Kellogg
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. -- John Ralston Saul
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security. -- Ludwig Quidde
We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. -- Ludwig Quidde
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. -- Ludwig Quidde
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected. -- Ludwig Quidde
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. -- Woodrow Wilson
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. -- Ludwig Quidde
We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. -- Ludwig Quidde
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared. -- William Jennings Bryan
Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. -- Christian Lous Lange
So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible. -- Ludwig Quidde
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. -- Ludwig Quidde
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. -- Ludwig Quidde
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace. -- Frank B. Kellogg
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. -- Frank B. Kellogg
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided. -- Albert Einstein
So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities. -- Bulent Ecevit
With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy. -- Hjalmar Schacht
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. -- Chester W. Nimitz
The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. -- Hjalmar Schacht
I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high. -- Eric Burdon
The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal. -- Bashar al-Assad
The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming. -- Donald Trump
The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power. -- Albert Einstein
The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion. -- Albert Einstein
Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it -- Jean Chretien
I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy. -- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
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
When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world. -- Bashar al-Assad
Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically. -- Pope Paul VI
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 reminder of the changing face of sea warfare. -- Richard Hough
This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind. -- Laura Hillenbrand

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