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

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

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

All men hate the nagging.

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

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

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.

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.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

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?

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.

For many of the world’s conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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

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.

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.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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.

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

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

Disagreement is something normal.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

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

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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 took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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

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

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.

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

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

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

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

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

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.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

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.

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?

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

You can only have one aim per debate.