Possess Nuclear Weapons

Famous quotes containing the words possess, nuclear and/or weapons:

    “We would not let ourselves be burned at the stake for our opinions: we are not that certain of them. But perhaps we would do so in order to be allowed to possess and to change them.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.”
    —Ronald, Sir Mason (b. 1930)

    “When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)