Quotes About Conflict

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.

when a people or family so divide, it never fails to be against themselves

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS. If

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

For it is an observation, as true as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.

it ought not to be forgotten that the demon of faction will, at certain seasons, extend his sceptre over all numerous bodies of men.

The populous States would, with little difficulty, overrun their less populous neighbors. Conquests would be as easy to be made as difficult to be retained. War, therefore, would be desultory and predatory. Plunder and devastation ever march in the train of irregulars.

letters of marque;

There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests. It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

We are not the doctors. We are the disease

WHEN Linacer, a distinguished physician, but bigoted Romanist, in the reign of Henry VIII., first fell in with the New Testament, after reading it for a while, he tossed it from him with impatience and a great oath, exclaiming, "Either this book is not true, or we are not Christians." He saw at once that the system of Rome and the system of the New Testament were directly opposed to one another; and no one who impartially compares the two systems can come to any other conclusion.

What dire offense from amorous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

And he himself one vile antithesis.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree?

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

Your silence there is better than your spite, For who can rail so long as they can write?

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.