Quotes About Conflict

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain and say, 'Shit, it's raining!

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

It is foolish to say sharp, hasty things, but 't is a deal more foolish to write 'em. When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded — and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

His madness foiled his reason...

Like my vodka, my marriage is on the rocks.

We have all taken risks in the making of war and in the going into wars. Is it not time that we should take some risks to secure peace? So long as we think of peace in terms of war we shall never get peace.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament. People don't fight for the reasons they give for it after they have got into the war; they fight because something has happened; because a train of circumstances has happened that puts their nerves on edge which makes them unhappy in their suspicions; which makes them feel unsafe and insecure until by a continuation of that mentality they come to the conclusion.

There are some towns so small that your second best friend is your third worst enemy.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, but in politics many times.

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

My heart says chocolate and wine, but my jeans say "For the love of all that is good, eat a salad!"

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.

The tragedy is, when you've got sex in your head, instead of down where it belongs, and when you have to go on copulating with your ears and your nose.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

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In mordern war we sow our harbors and coasts thick with hidden mines ready to explode should the enemy venture within our boarders.