Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments...[but] true and lasting peace among nations cannot consist in the possession of an equal supply of armaments but only in mutual trust.
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
I am made to tremble and I fear!
