A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them you're not allowed to by the home country. It made America realise that Britain was her real and true friend, when they were hard up against it and wanted something, and that no one else in Europe was. They're a weak lot, some of them in Europe you know. Weak. Feeble.

There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.