I would die for my country, but I could never allow my country to die for me.
Neil Kinnock
Explaining his support for CND
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?
Enoch Powell 24/01/1984
Category: Repartee, Nuclear Disarmament
If you carry this resolution and follow out its implications...you will send a Foreign Secretary, whoever he may be, naked into the conference chamber...And you call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.
Aneurin Bevan 1960
Category: Diplomacy, Party Conferences, Statesmen & Statesmanship, Nuclear Disarmament
Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.
David Steel 08/06/1983
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.
Neil Kinnock 03/10/1986
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
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.
Margaret Thatcher 17/01/1983
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
If in the 1930s nuclear weapons had been invented and the Allies had been faced by Nazi SS20s and Backfire Bombers, would it then have been morally right to have handed Hitler control of one of the most terrible weapons man has ever made? Would not that have been the one way to ensure that the thousand year Reich became exactly that? Would not unilateralism have given to Hitler the world domination he sought?
Margaret Thatcher 1983
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a world without nuclear weapons. Let me be practical about it. The knowledge is there to make them. So do not go too hard for that pie in the sky because, while everyone would like to see it, I do not believe it is going to come about.
Margaret Thatcher 28/03/1986
Category: Nuclear Disarmament
A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way.
Margaret Thatcher 10/01/1982
Category: Defence, Nuclear Disarmament
