"Our conflict is not likely to cease..." - Quote by George Washington
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.
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More on Conflict
“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.”
“Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.”
“No, by my soul, I never in my lifeDid hear a challenge urged more modestly,Unless a brother should a brother dareTo gentle exercise and proof of arms.”
More on Principles
“Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.”
“His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”