Quotes About Conflict

There was friction in the family regarding Anne Morgan's award of $3 million.

In this moralistic frame of mind, he was bound to see his opponents as benighted, misguided people, "governed by their narrow jealousies and unwarranted prejudices

Rockefeller developed an inverted worldview, accusing his critics of exactly the same sins of which they accused him.

He tried almost from the beginning of our partnership to dominate and override me," he said of Clark.

Grant was peppered with conflicting reports from white Democrats and black Republicans in Mississippi, who seemed to reside on different planets. One white complained to Grant about "ignorant

It now seemed futile to try to halt a British advance upon the capital.

Soon after being sworn in as president, John Adams learned that the Directory, the five-member council now ruling France, had expelled the new American minister, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and promulgated belligerent new orders against America's merchant marine. By spring, the French had seized more than three hundred American vessels.

The two sides projected competing nightmares of what would happen if the other side prevailed.

the three increasingly clash as they sell competing services.

While Hamilton endeared himself to Washington in this first election, he also antagonized John Adams, a man with an encyclopedic memory for slights.

At this point, Gates decided to wipe out Biggar's influence forever.

Delenda est Carthago: Carthage must be destroyed and obliterated.

Though Potts wished to fight on, Scott was inclined to relent.

As Rockefeller feared, the Duluth jury reached a verdict in favor of the Merritts, though it was overturned on appeal.

While Rockefeller and Gates were irked by the Merritts' ingratitude, they were not entirely blameless.

Each side possessed a lurid, distorted view of the other, buttressed by an idealized sense of itself.

In dueling with Scott, Rockefeller didn't try to demolish him—as Scott might have done to him—but called a truce to strengthen their alliance.

Yet they never seemed to get along.

would mark the start of periodic warfare between

As time passed, the strains between Gates and Harper grew intolerable.

by saying little, he underscored his position as honest broker and permitted the antagonists to vent their anger.

With finely honed political instincts, George Clinton saw that Hamilton was overreaching, and he secretly aided King's candidacy in order to drive a wedge between the Schuylers and the Livingstons. When New York picked its second senator on July 16, 1789, Rufus King came out on top. Just as Clinton suspected, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was irate and gradually moved into the governor's camp.

Where Junius had accommodated the Rothschilds, Pierpont defied them, secretly demanding a higher commission on the issue

Every time I had seen men rise up, they had not prevailed and innocent people had died. Daddy