Quotes About Diplomacy

In 1784, he will also order his corsairs to capture a US merchant ship, the Betsey. Once they are taken hostage, the Sultan uses the members of the Betsey's crew as bargaining tools, and in 1786 the US Congress agrees to a treaty establishing full diplomatic relations with Morocco.49 There are clear and significant

Do I like living with Daniel's family? No. Would I ever tell him that? No. I know I'm all about honesty and saying what I think, but sometimes people are more important than the truth.

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war.

ours is the first era in which it has been possible for people of different nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.

One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes

El año pasado pregunté a un conocido diplomático norteamericano de la Sociedad de Naciones por qué no amenazaban al Japón con un embargo comercial si continuaba con su campaña de violencia.Nuestros intereses económicos son demasiado poderosos fue la respuesta. ¿Cómo es posible ayudar a los hombres si son capaces de contentarse con este tipo de argumentos?

Askerlik hizmeti yapmasi gerekenlerin yalnizca yuzde ikisi bile kendilerini savas direniscisi ilan etse ve savasmayacagiz. Uluslararasi ihtilaflari cozmek icin baska yontemlere ihtiyacimiz var, dese hukumetlerin eli kolu baglanir; bu kadar buyuk kitleleri hapse atamazlar.

We do not forget the humane attitude of the Soviet Union who was the only one among the big powers to open her doors to hundreds of thousands of Jews when the Nazi armies were advancing in Poland.

She must, above all things, be just, not truckling to the strong and warring on or plundering the weak; she must act on the square with all nations, and the feeblest tribes; always keeping her faith, honest in her legislation, upright in all her dealings. Whenever such a Republic exists, it will be immortal: for rashness, injustice, intemperance and luxury in prosperity, and despair and disorder in adversity, are the causes of the decay and dilapidation of nations.

the Bush administration may, in future years, be remembered 'for bringing peace to the Middle East' (as Condoleezza Rice has pronounced). History may be the mother of truth, but it can also give birth to illegitimate children.

Simmons ap?ru deodat? în bibliotec?, ducînd o tav?. De o vîrst? mijlocie, avea o atitudine demn?, de om de stat, obligat s?-È™i controleze vorbele È™i nervii, s? nu declare niciodat? ce gîndeÈ™te sincer, È™i s? respecte aparenÈ›ele, atitudine cum se putea întîlni la diplomaÈ›i, la membrii familiilor regale, la înalÈ›ii funcÈ›ionari guvernamentali È™i la majordomi.

En la política, querido Gerardo, lo sabes como yo: no hay hombres, si no ideas; no hay sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino que se suprime un obstáculo...

leader had expected that the Europeans would help him overwhelm American intransigence. He had assumed that

There are no people in politics, only the ideas. There're no feelings, but only interests. In politics one does not kill a man, but removes an obstacle.

If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out, she said. Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.

If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out," she said. "Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is—a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.

She did not have strong views on politics. She did not like the confrontational nature of much political discussion; why could people not argue politely, she wondered, taking into account the views of others and accepting that people might differ with one another in perfectly good faith?

you did not look for a winner who would take everything; you found a way of allowing people to save face; you found a way of healing rather than imposing.