I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
There are many ways to make the death rate increase.
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress andor in the public.
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
One swallow alone does not make a summer.
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
I don't want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don't want you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm enclosing my check for that sum.