In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant d…

- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governm…

- Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker