In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

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.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

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

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Trump has no sense of shame.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

Law, without force, is impotent.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

How can we help President Obama?

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.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.