"The experience of one's own country and of other countries, the experience of men and women, of cities and of the earth, is an experience which can only be had in freedom."

"We have made a rod for our own backs."

"The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Ala…"

"If I had to choose between the two evils, I would rather have a world with no nuclear weapons than a world with nuclear weapons."