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

A siege is an act of war.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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

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.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

People like to talk about war.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

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.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.