If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as enemy combatants, I think, is unarguable, and we need to stand up for that.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.