The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

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.

Society is at odds with itself.

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.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Laws are silent in time of war.

I hope I’m wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

And every human being is precious.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.