Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. That concept died with Hiroshima.
War is like fire.
Wars, more than any other form of human activity, create the conditions which breed more war. Even if it s a little thing, do something for others something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. And then you destroy yourself. We know that only the spirit and mind of man, dedicated to justice and right, can, in the long term, enable us to live in the confident tranquility that should be every man s heritage. I believe that man will not merely endure, he will prevail.