Law is always better than war.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

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.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

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.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don’t know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they’re developing what’s called ‚nuclear capability,‘ which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That’s not a crime.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

Example is leadership.

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

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

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

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

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

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

A precedent embalms a principle.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

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.

Law, without force, is impotent.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

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.

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

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.