Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

William Westmoreland

War is fear cloaked in courage.

William McKinley

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

William J. Clinton

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

William J. Clinton

At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

William J. Clinton

I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.

William J. Clinton

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

Will Cuppy

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Will Durant

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

William Faulkner

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

William Faulkner

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.

Ronald Reagan

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Ronald Reagan

People do not make wars; governments do.

Ronald Reagan

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Saint Basil

In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

Saint Basil

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

Will Rogers

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

W. Eugene Smith

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Youssou N'Dour

Islam is a peaceful religion.

William Hazlitt

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

Wendell Berry

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

Yani Tseng

I feel very peaceful.

Yann Martel

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.

Wyndham Lewis

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

Willie Nelson

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

William Penn

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.