War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.