War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

A siege is an act of war.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

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.

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.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.