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.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

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.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

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.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

‚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.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Morality is contraband in war.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

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.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

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

There’s no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.

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

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

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

People like to talk about war.

We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.