From Pale Blue Dot
| June 27th, 2011“For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: ‘We come in peace for all mankind.’ As the United States was dropping 7-1/2 megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
-Carl Sagan