Dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith.
The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.
Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute.
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.
I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.
If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
No doubt, the United States and the American people are a gear country and a great people. Nobody disputes this, but talking about exceptionalism is way too much, and this is creating certain problems in relations, and not only with Russia, as I see it.
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
