Weapon Quotes

"And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?"

John Spratt, Politician

"Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational"

David Walker

"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have"

Ronald Reagan, President

"It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act"

Barack Obama, President

"The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness"

Harry S. Truman, President

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction"

Donald Rumsfeld, Politician

"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative"

Golda Meir, Leader

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go"

Golda Meir, Leader

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription"

Norman Cousins, Author

"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, Politician

"The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"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, Politician

"I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire"

Ferdinand Foch, Soldier

"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"His foe was folly and his weapon wit"

Anthony Hope, Writer

"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh"

Martin Farquhar Tupper, Writer

"It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks"

John Yoo, Educator

"Judicious absence is a weapon"

Charles Reade, Novelist

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that"

George Wald, Scientist

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal"

John Sununu, Politician

"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon"

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

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