You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction