James G. Blaine Quotes

Force should never be the first answer, but sometimes it is the only answer.

Violence is my last option.

With friends you use reason and logic. With enemies you use violence.

Nowhere in the world has the use of force alone resolved a conflict.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

I don't like to fight.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

Unless you’re prepared to use force, it’s very difficult to deal with a person who understands only force.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that

Diplomacy without arms is music without instruments.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

The only methods we shall employ will be English ones. The good old English fist.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

The world does not grow better by force or by the policeman's club.

When you get into a political fight, never try and kill your opponent. Leave him an exit way to escape with his dignity intact. Remember your enemy today you may need as an ally tomorrow.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

I can't force a guy to fight.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.