“The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.”
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
