George W. Bush Quotes

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

We owe those people who live scared some immediate relief.... If this is really a war, let's declare war.

[Addressing the Korean parliament:] You are not alone. You will never be alone as long as you continue to play worthily your part in the great design of human freedom.

The telegraph would bind man to his fellow-man in such bonds of amity as to put an end to war.

Come with me, Douglass, I will defend you with my life. I want you for a special purpose. When I strike the bees will begin to swarm, and I shall want you to help hive them.

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

The Governments of the States parties to this Constitution on behalf of their peoples declare: that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed; that ignorance of each other's ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war; that the great and terrible war which has now ended was a war made possible by the denial of the democratic principles of the dignity, equality and mutual respect of men, and by the propagation, in their place, through ignorance and prejudice, of the doctrine of the inequality of men and races; that the wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice and liberty and peace are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all the nations must fulfill in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern; that a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.

It is a war to the death between good and evil. We must fight fire with fire.

In this war we are not fighting against you, the German people, for whom we have no bitter feeling, but against a tyrannous and forsworn regime which has betrayed not only its own people but the whole of Western civilization and all that you and we hold dear.

Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history…. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.