Quotes About Negotiation

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Peace is produced by war.

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.