To This Day We Seem

There Is No More Important Task In A Democracy Than Resolving The Differences Among People And Finding A Course Of Action That Will Be Supported By A Sufficient Number To Permit The Nation To Achieve A Better Life For All.

General, You Don't Have A War Plan! All You Have Is A Kind Of Horrible Spasm!

All The Evidence Of History Suggests That Man Is Indeed A Rational Animal, But With A Near Infinite Capacity For Folly. . . . He Draws Blueprints For Utopia, But Never Quite Gets It Built. In The End He Plugs Away Obstinately With The Only Building Material Really Ever At Hand--his Own Part Comic, Part Tragic, Part Cussed, But Part Glorious Nature.

I Want To Say, And This Is Very Important: At The End We Lucked Out. It Was Luck That Prevented Nuclear War. We Came That Close To Nuclear War At The End. Rational Individuals: Kennedy Was Rational; Khrushchev Was Rational; Castro Was Rational. Rational Individuals Came That Close To Total Destruction Of Their Societies. And That Danger Exists Today.

One Solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated Man Can Do More To Keep God's Love Alive And His Presence Felt In The World Than A Thousand Half-hearted, Talkative Busy Men Living Frightened, Fragmented Lives Of Quiet Desperation.