In order for a war to be just three things are necessary. First the authority of the sovereign. Secondly a just cause. Thirdly a rightful intention.

The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing that no man especially a Christian man has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority just cause right motive.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Eternal truth eternal righteousness eternal love these only can triumph for these only can endure.

The truth is I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

People often ask why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

I have followed holiness I have taught truth and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters till they were right in their conditions.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong truth and error justice and injustice cruelty and mercy.

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

The truth is the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins and you're talking about righteousness you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean there's persecution all up and down the line.

Nothing does reason more right than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

When you're caught up in the storm or you know just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

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.

The truth is that life is delicious horrible charming frightful sweet bitter and that is everything.

It may not always be easy convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right but it is the right thing to do. Always.