Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war - as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years - I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

The whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace, and mankind's God-given capacity to build.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.