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 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.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Peace is its own reward.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

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

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

There is no gambling like politics.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

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

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

Democracy passes into despotism.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

That government is best which governs least.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The FBI should not be a political body.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.