Quotes About Diplomacy

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior

You cannot reason with a rifle bullet fired from across the battlefield. You cannot negotiate with an artillery shell lobbed from over the horizon. You cannot compromise with a nuclear warhead screaming in from half a world away. The only answer to the gun, the only defense for the gun, has been more guns.

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

I agree that was terrible—but what could my government do about it?" "A great deal—if it wished. But that would have offended the people who supplied it with oil—and bought its weapons, like the land mines that killed and maimed civilians by the thousands.

Gücü doÄŸru ÅŸekilde uygularsan bütün siyasal sonuçlar? çözebilirsin.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which can hardly be exaggerated.

the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

We also have our diplomatic secrets

Come in peace or leave in pieces

I promised myself that next time Shevraeth tried to talk to me, I'd listen, and even if he insulted me, my family, and my land, I'd keep my tongue between my teeth.

Individuals who are engaged in a profitable partnership don't kill one another. I believe that the same principle applies to countries.

Talleyrand smiled. 'It seems that the English are preparing to fight to the last Austrian.

the hotline between the presidents of Russia and America is secured via a onetime pad cipher.

Peace through Defense—Millions for Arms but Not One Cent for Tribute

a great nation must go on arming itself more and more, not for conquest—not for jealousy—not for war—but for peace!

I don't altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you've got to hand it to 'em, they've been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, 'Just tend to your own

Better is peace than ever war.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?