conflict Quotes

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from... ...

"Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death.... ...

We fight wars so that we can live in peace.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other... ...

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

"Truths may clash without contradicting each other."

"You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time."

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.

"What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning."

"What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things."