I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

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

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

War settles nothing.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.