To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

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.

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

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

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

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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

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

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth 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.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

I am rather inclined to silence.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Forgotten is forgiven.