No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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

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.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Man, all lives matter.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.