Robert McNamara Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Robert McNamara:

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
~Robert McNamara


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-mcnamara-quotes/#d9b06c5a

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
~Robert McNamara


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-mcnamara-quotes/#626a32b6

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
~Robert McNamara


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-mcnamara-quotes/#51860bec

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
~Robert McNamara


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-mcnamara-quotes/#6319300e

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
~Robert McNamara


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-mcnamara-quotes/#53bfc9b3

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
~Robert McNamara


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-mcnamara-quotes/#284979eb

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
~Robert McNamara


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/robert-mcnamara-quotes/#4ce16d10

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