WednesdayNov 05, 2025
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
In war there is no second prize for the runner up.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
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.
It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to this struggle, unless we combat hunger with food, fear with trust, suspicion with faith, fraud with justice and threats with power, nations will surrender to the futility, the hopelessness, the panic on which wars feed.
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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