The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.