Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously--and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

from the President's Veteran's Day Speech (11/11/05).

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful...They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

From remarks by the president at the signing of The Defense Appropriations Act for 2005 (8/5/04)

Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

The future president said this in regard to Kosovo in April 1999.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

from a UN Speech in Sept 2004

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

from a speech on 10/3/03

...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

If we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

From a speech at the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development in Wash. DC, 6/18/02.

I think war is a dangerous place.

If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

Our nation is somewhat sad, but we’re angry. There’s a certain level of blood lust, but we won’t let it drive our reaction. We’re steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we’ll have to start displaying scalps.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave...

What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...

A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over...is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

"My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober."

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.