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.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

A siege is an act of war.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

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 can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

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.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

In time of war the laws are silent.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Law is always better than war.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

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

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.