Quotes About Diplomacy

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

I believe it is peace for our time.

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.