Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

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.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.

It is right to give every man his due.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

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.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

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

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