Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

No violent extreme endures.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

We make war that we may live in peace.

We are not at war against Islam.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.