Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.

War is the statesman's game the priest's delight the lawyer's jest the hired assassin's trade.

There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.

With those attacks the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Virtue is a state of war and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state it is an army with banners.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

All oppression creates a state of war.

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.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.

Yesterday December seventh 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe having surveyed a few boxes full of letters diaries bank statements and photographs that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways yet each one can be true.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle justified by exemplary conversation.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and you know said it.

What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.