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Explore our hand-picked selection of 48 inspiring quotes by Robert McNamara.

About Robert McNamara

  • Born: June 9, 1916
  • Died: July 6, 2009
  • Occupation: Former United States Secretary Of Defense
    • It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the soviet's three hundred.
    Time Three Nuclear
    ...but highly placed sources within the kennedy administration disagreed: "[t]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... as far as i am concerned, it made no difference... if my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? the military balance wasn't changed. i didn't believe it then, and i don't believe it now..."
    Memories Military Believe
    It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
    Umpires Would Be Nuclear
    I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.
    Running Beach Morning
    I would characterize current us nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
    Inspirational Nuclear Weapons
    Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.
    Giving Enough Time Action
    Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.
    Philosophy Moving Practice
    Rationality will not save us.
    Thinking Rationality
    Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? some may think so. but as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? i think not.
    Thinking Events Nuclear
    Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.
    Political Management Economic
    I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. and i wanted to test that by going to vietnam.
    Loss Vietnam Tests
    [general curtis] lemay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. but what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
    Children Winning Men
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