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

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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

Morality is contraband in war.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker – yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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 good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Laws are silent in time of war.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.