“The price one pays for having a kind man at ones elbow.”

“It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.”

“It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.”

“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldnt quite see in my mind, and certainly couldnt love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful just deserts, which I thought...”

“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”

“The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”