Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Generally, the view that I’ve had on Twitter is if you’re on Twitter, you’re in, like, the meme – you’re in meme war land. If you’re on Twitter, you’re in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

A disagreement or incident involving someone who’s not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Debates, I hate.