“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that
Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ 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,
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
