The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

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

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.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

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.

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?

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

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Connectivity just can’t be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that’s why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.

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

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

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

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

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

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?

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

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

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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.

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

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.

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.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

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

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.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

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

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

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

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.

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