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.

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

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

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

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women’s work… I’ve noticed that it just happens a lot.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

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

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

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

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

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

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.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

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.

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

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I love stories about women.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

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.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

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

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.