Even A Pacifist Should Admire The Military

The Second World War Is The Largest Single Event In Human History, Fought Across Six Of The World's Seven Continents And All It Oceans. It Killed 50 Million Human Beings, Left Hundreds Of Millions Of Others Wounded In Mind Or Body And Materially Devastated Much Of The Heartland Of Civilization.

I Can't Visualize The Situation In Which We Nuke Ourselves Into Extinction.

Hitler ... Lacked The [inclination] For Anything More Than The Occasional Sensational Display Of Emotion, In Particular The Great Set-piece Speech Which Mesmerized The Mob And Left Him Drained Of ... Energy.

The Leader Of Men In Warfare Can Show Himself To His Followers Only Through A Mask, A Mask That He Must Make For Himself, But A Mask Made In Such Form As Will Mark Him To Men Of His Time And Place As The Leader They Want And Need.

We Saw The Children And The Women With Their Babies And Then I Heard The Poouff — The Flame Had Broken Through The Thatched Roof And There Was A Yellow- Brown Smoke Column Going Up Into The Air. It Didn't Hit Me All That Much Then, But When I Think Of It Now — I Slaughtered Those People. I Murdered Them.