Quotes about Conflict

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

Find some disgruntled member, whisper a lie in his ear and he will wreak havoc in your church.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse

These reconnoissances were made under the supervision of Captain Robert E. Lee, assisted by Lieutenants P. G. T. Beauregard, Isaac I. Stevens, Z. B. Tower, G. W. Smith, George B. McClellan, and J. G. Foster, of the corps of engineers, all officers who attained rank and fame, on one side or the other, in the great conflict for the preservation of the unity of the nation.

The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

There will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy.

For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in