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

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

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.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

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

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

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

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

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.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

War is what happens when language fails.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

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

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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.

The human heart is the same the world over.