The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

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.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.

In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

America doesn’t have health insurance.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

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

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

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.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Words are loaded pistols.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

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

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.