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.

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

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

We make war that we may live in peace.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

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.

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.

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.

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

War is a contagion.

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Morality is contraband in war.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

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.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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.