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

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

There is always safety in valor.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

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

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.