Quotes About Conciliation

before it became apparent how thin though highly valuable a layer of liberalism had been. With it conciliation disappeared from public political life, interests hit hard against interests, and the struggle began.

If I want to be anything, I want to be a messenger of peace.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?

I know the second oath I am to make. I don't need to be told it. I will unite instead of divide, Stormfather. I will bring men together

I've always felt that the best way to get rid of any enemy is to make a friend of him. It's a policy that has stood me well in my years in public life.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

I am prone to reshape and refashion things to try and please as many people as I can, to get as many nods or smiles out of as many people as possible.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

a concession

Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

I seek solutions, not battles.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

We need to tell the far-right and the far-left to go away and have people in the center solve the problem.

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

Only by respecting the other side's work and way of thinking can you open a path for compromise.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.