Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. - Adlai Stevenson II

We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave — to the ancient enemies of man — half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them