Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.