Peace above all things is to be desired but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace cultivate justice but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

It's a great mistake I think to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

An argument fatal to the communist theory is suggested by the fact that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Limited in his nature infinite in his desire man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires since nature hath set none.

All all is theft all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and without doubt the most agreeable one.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion desire.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

What I took back because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for but I have other desires and passions.

James Cagney Steve McQueen I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time you have no desire to see them in movies.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures and things like that.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Always desire to learn something useful.

The will to win the desire to succeed the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve not by the desire to beat others.