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.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

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

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

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.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

War is the business of barbarians.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

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

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.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

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.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

The post of honour is a private station.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

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

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

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.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.