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.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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.

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

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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

I am rather inclined to silence.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

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.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

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.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

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

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

I like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

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.

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

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Peace begins with a smile.