Quotes About Diplomacy

The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.