Quotes About Diplomacy

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.

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

It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.

Russia isn't going to start a war. They can't afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Making peace is harder than making war.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

There is no alternative to peace. There is no sense to go to war.

War settles nothing.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

We are not at war against Islam.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.