So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

We have to get rid of those nuclear weapons.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.