You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

War is a contagion.

War is the business of barbarians.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a community’s concern and regard for a particular institution.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Money can’t buy life.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

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

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.