Quotes about Contention
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.
— Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
— Abraham Lincoln
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.
— Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
— Abraham Lincoln
On Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
— James Madison
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
— James Madison
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
— JC Ryle