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

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

War is a contagion.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

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.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

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

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Money often costs too much.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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.

People like to talk about war.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

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

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

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

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

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

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.