Wernher von Braun on war and peace

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.

• Liberty

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969The Chance for Peace (1953)

• Guns

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton1885–1945