Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

It’s nice when little teams win.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

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

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

Empire and liberty.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Politics have no relation to morals.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

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

War settles nothing.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.