Armaments Quotes

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

I have sat on the army, navy, and ordnance committees, and I see no limit to the increase of our armaments under the existing system.