War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime!

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.