Paul Nitze Quotes

United States, Writer
January 16, 1907 – October, 19, 2004.

Paul Henry Nitze was an American statesman who served as United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department. He is best known for being the principal author of NSC 68 and the co-founder of Team B. He helped shape Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.

Also known as Statesman

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

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- Achieve
- Error
- Forgetting
The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.

Paul Nitze

I have been around at a time when important things needed to be done.

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- Time
- Important
- Done
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Paul Nitze
Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.

Paul Nitze
- Words
- Existence
- Peaceful