Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The world is too violent right now.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

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

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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

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

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

People do not make wars; governments do.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

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

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

A siege is an act of war.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

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.

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