War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.