Quotes About Conciliation

Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.

I wanted to come more than halfway.

Having won over his own people—in itself no mean feat, for they were a disparate bunch, drawn from all manner of creeds, colors, and tribes—he then went out and won over the enemy.

Lee both articulated and embodied. He was the sacrificial lamb, the Confederate Christ on the cross at Appomattox who then was resurrected by others in the spirit and the body politic. Before he died, he also became the soft-spoken but implacable foe of submission and conciliation.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

Yeah, let's keep the peace going.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Fifth, agree to seek a resolution.

Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize for America.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior

Strive to live in peace with everyone. For, peace is better off than war or conflict. -Emeasoba George

It is a safer rule, however, for the speaker to try to conciliate the hostile element, and it has been a rule of mine for the last five years to endeavor to locate such centers of frigidity as may be found before me, and then direct all my energies toward " thawing them out."

If Catholicism be the principle of inclusion, Protestantism is the principle of exclusion. The first is the system of conciliation of all verities, the second is the opposition of all verities to their mutual exclusion.

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.—ROMANS 12:18

The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That's the only kind of leadership I know—or believe in—or will practice.

All true conflict should aim at peace.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution.