Quotes About Choice

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Make love, not war. Unless you're Loki, in which case: do what you want.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.