Olive Branches Quotations

[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.

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love..

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]