Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

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

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