The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

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

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

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.