I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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.‘

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

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

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.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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

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… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

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

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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!

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

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

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

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

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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!

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.