What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

God made me and broke the mold.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

A precedent embalms a principle.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

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

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.