“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”
“There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.”
“Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?”
“...the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.”
“Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.”
“Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.”
“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”