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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Words are loaded pistols.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

America is the greatest country in the world.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

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

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.

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.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

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.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

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

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

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.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.