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.

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...

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we...

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

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

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died ‘¦every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

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

Never use intuition

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

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