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.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

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.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

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

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

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

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

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

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Going home helps the content.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I am rather inclined to silence.