The only failures are those who fail to try.

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

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

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

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.