In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins who were therefore shut out.

They would need to be already wise in order to love wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying 'By the time you get this Daddy I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

If Scotland and America go to war I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.