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

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

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

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.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

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