History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

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.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

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!

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

War is a contagion.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

History is written by the victors.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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.

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.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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!

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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.

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

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

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

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.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

What is past is prologue.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.