This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

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

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

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

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

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

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.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

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

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

People do not make wars; governments do.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

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

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