We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

Peace can be a cover whereby evil men can perpetrate diabolical wrongs.