You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

The world is too violent right now.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

War settles nothing.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

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

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Laws are silent in time of war.

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

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.