I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action..

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I m….

We see what we want to believe..

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals..

Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of f….

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality..

The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation….

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme..

Rationality will not save us..

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a li….

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated..

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you..

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage..

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or….

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose..

The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent with ….

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….

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed..

They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations..