The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds. And I find grounds for this belief in the wisdom literature of Proverbs. It says in effect this: Panic strikes like a storm and calamity comes like a whirlwind to those who hate knowledge and ignore their God.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.