Mark Esper Quotes

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

When a number of animals live in a group, herd or flock, they carry on the struggle for existence in common against the outside world … The animals which live socially no longer wage a struggle against each other, wherein the weak succumb; just the reverse, the weak enjoy the same advantages as the strong. When some animals have the advantage by means of greater strength, sharper smell, or experience in finding the best pasture or in warding off the enemy, this advantage does not accrue only to these better fitted, but also to the entire group. This combining of the animals’ separate powers into one unit gives to the group a new and much stronger power than any one individual possessed, even the strongest. It is owing to this united strength that the defenseless plant-eaters can ward off rapacious animals. It is only by means of this unity that some animals are able to protect their young.

Had the rest of America passively looked on, while a sister colony was subjugated, the same fate would gradually have overtaken all. The safety of the whole depends upon the mutual protection of every part. If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body. Hence it was the duty and interest of all the colonies to succor and support the one which was suffering.

There are bonds of fraternity linking democratic countries.

Just as we protect California, so shall we protect Japan.

Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid far more easily what they need, and avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides, by united force.

Are we strong? Can we defend ourselves? Are we standing shoulder to shoulder? Do we stand up for each other?

Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.

If we defend, we all defend.

We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation.

We only won our freedom because of our allies, and we can only sustain it because of them.

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.