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

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.

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.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

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

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.