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.

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

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Enemies are so stimulating.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Precaution is better than cure.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

An army marches on its stomach.

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.

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

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

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.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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