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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.

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

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.

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

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.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.

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.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don’t care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

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

The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as is sophisticated militarization. These have been the most significant ingredients in the silent war.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I have declared a special military operation.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

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

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

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

A war today or tomorrow, if it led to nuclear war, would not be like any war in history. A full-scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes, with the weapons now in existence, could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work.

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

Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God… I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain’t over till it’s over.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.