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.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

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.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

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.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

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.

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.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

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

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

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.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

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

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

In war there is no prize for runner-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.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

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

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.