Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

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

People like to talk about war.

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.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

War settles nothing.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

War is the province of danger.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

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.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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?

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

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.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don’t know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they’re developing what’s called ‚nuclear capability,‘ which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That’s not a crime.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.