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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 401
AUTHOR: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION: I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
ATTRIBUTION: Prime Minister WINSTON CHURCHILL, radio broadcast, London, October 8, 1951.—Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 8, p. 8257 (1974).
SUBJECTS: Defense