I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

War is the province of danger.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Morality is contraband in war.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

For greed all nature is too little.

My business is to prevent the future.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I am two with nature.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

History is more or less bunk.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Law is always better than war.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.