Quotes About Confrontation

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.