A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

When one builds and another tears down, what do they gain but toil?

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation"-this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by his example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.