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.

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.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

I supported Donald Trump.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I don’t follow politics much.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

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

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I love being in the United States Senate.

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.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

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.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.