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

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

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

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

The law is reason, free from passion.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

More law, less justice.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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

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

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

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

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.

Debates, I hate.

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.

Law, without force, is impotent.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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

Law is always better than war.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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.

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

Example is leadership.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

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

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.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he’s very funny and very smart.

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.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

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

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Passive aggressors who are adept at this will have trained themselves to remain calm, while you get irritated and emotional.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

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

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