People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

He that’s secure is not safe.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

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

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

We are not at war against Islam.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

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

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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.

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

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

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

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

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 can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that’s always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

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

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.