It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

The war on drugs is wrong both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid too reckless and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people war means maiming people war means families left without fathers and mothers.

People never lie so much as after a hunt during a war or before an election.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes all of us defending the United States of America.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct if you listen to it will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image' and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood isn't it?

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying 'Sir there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life which make it pungent intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict in the zone where black and white clash.