I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I think governments can’t do much.

We are not at war against Islam.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

On all the peaks lies peace.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

War settles nothing.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

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.

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.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is applesauce.

Every President wants to do right.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.