Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { }
Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices. { }
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.
What's a reputation for, if not for proceeding oneself?
History is written by the survivors.
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
You never see a French person eating alone.
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Art thou the King of the Jews?
Sólo tenemos ojos para lo que nos ciega.
What is best and most necessary usually happens.
I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.
