In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

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.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

People like to talk about war.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

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

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.