Mutual Defense Quotes

Conflict with our allies in a war is terrible. But the only thing worse is fighting a war without allies.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

We especially ought to pray that the powers of Europe be so poised and counterpoised among themselves that their own security may require the presence of all their forces at home leaving the other parts of the world in undisturbed tranquility.

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.

NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

The bogey of "entangling alliances" lurks in the corner of almost every treaty the Senate has had to consider in recent years.

A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.

A commonwealth then is so far independent, as it can plan and provide against oppression by another, and so far dependent on another commonwealth, as it fears that other's power

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.

If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.

.all for just a word – “neutrality” – [It is] just a scrap of paper!!!

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

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

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

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

A nation, in order to be secure in its defense, has to be stronger than its potential enemy. Then what becomes of the defense of the other? Is he to have none?

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

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO.

He was afraid of war [with America]. Stain never did anything to provoke a war with the United States. He knew his weakness

Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

NATO is based on shared values. Democracy, individual civil liberties and the rule of law. In public and also in meetings with the allies, I have repeatedly pointed out how crucial these common values are. They are the basis for our unity, and unity is the most important basis for our strength.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

Nato has always acted according to a simple principle: it is not worth attacking somebody who is strong.