Quotes About Diplomacy

Si vis pacem, para bellum," Gray

impatience gets the better of us. The politicians, no offense, see an impasse. So they give the word, and the armies clash. They take territory or destroy it, kill hundreds, sometimes thousands. And it all comes down to the ones who started talking giving in to frustration.

And while in one sense love conquers all, war nonetheless remains the governing force in world affairs.

Legation Quarter. But if there is, it would be very

The title of the elder branch falling at length to him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for hastening the marriage

Edith's was a campaign waged with such cleverness and skill that he could find no rational grounds for complaint.

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

Strive to live in peace with everyone. For, peace is better off than war or conflict. -Emeasoba George

Now, my dear Mr. Douglas, don't go off on those tiresome foreign affairs. What can it signify which conquers which, or who dethrones who, at that distance? Let them fight it out quietly. Besides, you need not pretend to understand national feuds if you have not found out what is passing under your eyes;

The most difficult of problems is how to change late foes into free friends.

A great deal of the reticence of diplomacy had, I think history shows, much better be spoken out.

Treaties are quite as important as most laws, and to require the elaborate assent of representative assemblies to every word of the law, and not to consult them even as to the essence of the treaty, is prima facie ludicrous.

Remember If There Will Be Peace In The World Then There Will Be No Need Of Weapons.

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Of all the miseries that civil war can bring upon a country the greatest lies in the appeal which one of the contestants always ends by making to some foreign government.

Ambitious men ought to follow curved lines, the shortest road in politics.

It is a safer rule, however, for the speaker to try to conciliate the hostile element, and it has been a rule of mine for the last five years to endeavor to locate such centers of frigidity as may be found before me, and then direct all my energies toward " thawing them out."

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

We are not at war against Islam.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.