Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The thing that I focus on because I don't think it gets enough attention is that among the world's major powers, there… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The commitment to international agreements is embodied, it's found in the U.S. Constitution. Article Six of the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China -… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for… — John Burroughs Copy Share
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking — John Burroughs Copy Share
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and… — John Burroughs Copy Share
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually… — John Burroughs Copy Share
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to… — John Burroughs Copy Share
One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. — John Burroughs Copy Share
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and… — John Burroughs Copy Share
“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most… — John Burroughs Copy Share
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