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I'm not an expert on the arms race.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

You cannot deal with an industrial-strength extremist problem just with force of arms. You have to have that political component as well.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

I don't believe in strong-arming people.

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.