Contentiousness Quotes

“Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?”
― Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral. We must not be parsimonious, as long as we are not shooting, we are not spending one tenth as much.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower