The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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

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.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Laws are silent in time of war.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

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

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

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.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

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

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

I was born realizing the flaws in the criminal justice system.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

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

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

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

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

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

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.