A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Effective action is always unjust.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

The sergeant is the Army.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.