 Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly. |
| Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality. |
| Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs. |
| In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today. |
| New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war. |
| There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans. |
| Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion. |
| I'm against ignorance. |
| For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate. |
| From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process. |
| Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. |
