In time of war the laws are silent.

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.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

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.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Society is at odds with itself.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I love being in a courtroom.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

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

We’re talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

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.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

War is the business of barbarians.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?