Quotes About Diplomacy

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I'm asking, is there any place you don't want to intervene in?

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The true objective of war is peace.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.