War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Law is always better than war.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

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

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of 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.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.