Quotes About Negotiation

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

The true objective of war is peace.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!