Olive Branches famous quotes
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[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone.
-- Debra Granik -
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
-- Don Williams -
In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]
-- Ovid -
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.
-- Steven Levitt