“The pains taken to preserve peace include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.”

“If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.”

“nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.”

“I resume my pen, in reply to the curious epistle, you have been pleased to favour me with; and can assure you, that, notwithstanding, I am naturally of a grave and phlegmatic disposition, it has been the source of abundant merriment to me. The spirit that breathes throughout is so rancorous, illiberal and imperious: The argumentative part of it so puerile and fallacious: The misrepresentations of facts so palpable and flagrant: The criticisms so illiterate, trifling and absurd: The conceits so low, sterile and splenetic, that I will venture to pronounce it one of the most ludicrous performances, which has been exhibited to public view, during all the present controversy.”

"I told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education."

"Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield."

"Told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education."

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.

Death to Israel! Death to Israel!

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Religious wars are the most terrible wars because they are waged without any prospect of conciliation.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War...

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.