Nothing Worth Doing Can Be Accomplished In

We Take, And Must Continue To Take, Morally Hazardous Actions To Preserve Our Civilization. We Must Exercise Our Power. But We Ought Neither To Believe That A Nation Is Capable Of Perfect Disinterestedness In Its Exercise, Nor Become Complacent About A Particular Degree Of Interest And Passion Which Corrupt The Justice By Which The Exercise Of Power Is Legitimatized.

The Chief Source Of Man's Inhumanity To Man Seems To Be The Tribal Limits Of His Sense Of Obligation To Other Men.

Man Is Both Strong And Weak, Both Free And Bound, Both Blind And Far-seeing. He Stands At The Juncture Of Nature And Spirit; And Is Involved In Both Freedom And Necessity.

God Grant Me The Serenity To Accept The Things I Cannot Change, The Courage To Change The Things I Can, And The Wisdom To Know The Difference.

Now We're Living In A Nuclear Age, And The Science That Was Supposed To Be Automatically For Human Welfare Has Become A Nuclear - A Science That Gives Us Nuclear Weapons. This Is The Ironic Character Of Human History, And Of Human Existence, Which I Can Only Explain, If I Say So, In Biblical Terms. Now I Don't Mean By This Reason That I Will Accept Every Interpretation Of Christianity That's Derived From The Bible As Many People Wouldn't Accept My Interpretation. But That's What It Means For Me.