Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. And we will not allow a regime that chants "Death to America" to gain access to the most deadly weapons on Earth.

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.