Carolina QuotesWe are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead. That is our business. Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation. If we fail, then we have damned every man to be the slave of Fear. Let us not deceive ourselves: We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Carolinian
Source
Address presenting the United States atomic energy proposal, United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, New York, June 14, 1946
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- speech
- work
- Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (the Baruch Plan)
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- 1946
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“We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.…” Bernard Mannes Baruch. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-976C18CB6F. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/976c18cb6f
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