We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

Submit an agreement providing for the peaceful absorbtion of a celestial races in such a manner that our culture would remain intact with guarantee that their presence not be revealed." "One must consider the fact that mis-identification of these space craft for a intercontinental missile in a re-entry phase of flight could lead to accidental nuclear war with horrible consequences.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.