Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

There is nothing moderate about an ideology of endless mass military slaughter abroad and ever-tightening authoritarianism and economic exploitation at home.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

Because I know war… because I know the horror, I don’t want to add to it. After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

It’s almost like the fog of war. After the war is over, you then look back and say, ‘Wow, this plan, as great as it was, didn’t quite work once they started that throwing hand grenades at us.’ It really is similar to that.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

The people’s community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy…Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.

It’s quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back… You’re in a war zone, you’re dodging IED’s and bullets one day and a couple days later you’re back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you’ve been through.

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

War is not won by victory.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

We’ve never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

If God is on our side, he’ll stop the next war.

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

We’ve got wars. Imagine having more money, you could buy more beer. Have you been to Dublin in its heyday like in the boom heyday at like 4:00 in the morning on a Sunday or Saturday? It’s like beyond New Orleans. It’s like St. Patrick’s Day every day. It’s not good. I don’t even like pubs anymore. I like going for a meal and having a bottle of wine. Be more gentle.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

It’s clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it’s easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.

All government wars are unjust.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception. I cannot war with a nonentity. If, however, God is affirmed to represent an existence which is distinct from the existence of which I am a mode, and which it is alleged is not the noumenon of which the word I represents only a speciality of phenomena, then I deny God, and affirm that it is impossible God can be.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I’ve been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, ‘Hey, this war is bogus,’ to some guy who’s 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living – only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress.

I want free life, and I want fresh air;And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,The crack of the whip like shots in battle,The medley of horns, and hoofs, and headsThat wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;The green beneath and the blue above,And dash, and danger, and life and love.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington’s elites – politicians and intellectuals – miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today’s world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am not going to explain to you the history of the Cold War because you certainly know it but what we see now is China as the rising economic superpower, one that is certainly moving forward.

Many people don’t realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to arrest extraordinary numbers of people, particularly in poor communities of color, for minor drug offenses that get ignored on the other side of town.

Born enemies don’t fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they’re not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

…If peace were the goal of today’s intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude — and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale — would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that ‘poverty breeds wars’ … But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country’s freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. … I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. … Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.

It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today