Quotes About Conflict

Burr is said to have remarked, "Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.

John Adams summed up the case succinctly: "In general, our generals have been outgeneralled.

Grant explained to Porter his aversion to profanities, saying "swearing helps to rouse a man's anger; and when a man flies into a passion his adversary who keeps cool always gets the better of him."50

Mills lashed out at Barbot as "an impertinent puppy"—the sort of fighting words that prompted duels.

Jack lacked the nerve to contest his terrifying, distant father.

Dodd, do you often act for both sides in a case?

Revenge, greed, resentment, envy, and patriotism made for an inflammatory mix.

While reading the scene in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy in which the tenderhearted Uncle Toby picks up a fly and delicately places it outside a window instead of killing it, Burr is said to have remarked, "Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.

From the outset, Rockefeller had to wrestle with the demons of pride and greed.

It might have been friction over this issue that caused their relationship to cool in the late 1890s.

They knew they would either have to quit the business or swallow their pride and make peace with the oil giant.

Two people seemed to coexist inside George Washington's breast. One was the political militant who mouthed republican slogans; this Washington thought his troops would fight better if motivated by patriotic ideals. The other, schooled in the British military system, believed devoutly in top-down discipline and rank as necessary to a well-run army. This Washington was also the Virginia planter who felt little in common with the scruffy plebeians around him.

Rockefeller's overwhelming influence on the oil industry stemmed from the conflict between his overmastering need for order and the turbulent, unruly nature of the infant industry.

Then suddenly, in early 1889, Rockefeller grew aloof toward William Rainey Harper, who had committed the classic error of promoting his cause too assertively.

This feud, rife with intrigue and lacerating polemics, was to take on an almost pathological intensity.

But Perkins had left the bank on bad terms

Thomas Jones, a Loyalist judge in New York, wrote that not "a stick of wood, a spear of grass or a kernel of corn could the troops in New Jersey procure without fighting for it.

To believe America able to withstand England is a dreadful infatuation.

People tended either to embrace Hamilton or to abhor him;

Many times, it would be impossible to appease both the United States and Britain.

The northern states were not about to override their southern brethren on the slavery issue. All along, the American Revolution had been premised on a tacit bargain that regional conflicts would be subordinated to the need for unity among the states.

Recoiling at what he saw as the Clark brothers' pomposity, he eventually grew as censorious of them as he had been of George Gardner.

shooting did erupt nearby.

In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.