It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

The world's fat is badly divided.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.