I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.