Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

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

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Law is always better than war.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

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

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

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

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

All men hate the nagging.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Example is leadership.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

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

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

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

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

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.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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