Settling Disputes Quotes

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Since the foolish part of mankind will make wars, from time to time, with each other, not having sense enough otherwise to settle their differences, it certainly becomes the wiser part, who cannot prevent these wars, to alleviate as much as possible the calamities attending them.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

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