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

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

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.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

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

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Words are loaded pistols.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

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.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

War is the business of barbarians.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

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.

War is the province of danger.

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.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Law is always better than war.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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 know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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.

Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.