Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

This lady is not for turning.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

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

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Courage is grace under pressure.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

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.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Character is power.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.