Quotes About Negotiation

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

If you want peace, understand war.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.