Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

People like to talk about war.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

An army marches on its stomach.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

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.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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.