Fred Ikle famous quotes

I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.
-- Fred Ikle

#Nuclear #Wheat #Crosses

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.
-- Fred Ikle

#Military #Presidential #Administration

The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.
-- Fred Ikle

#Country #Moscow #Research

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.
-- Fred Ikle

#Thinking #Offense And Defense #Important

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses.