Quotes About Diplomacy

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

It's east to start a war in any country

The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

I'm not sure that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know that we're at war.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.