Quotes About Diplomacy

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

If you want peace, understand war.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.