It depends on how you define military force, but it is plain that the [Self-Defense Forces] does not constitute war potential as such.

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

The Korean War is a gift from the gods.

I want to see Mount Fuji.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me.

-- Fidel Castro

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

-- B. F. Skinner