Quotes About Diplomacy

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

The next World War will be over water

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

A bad peace is even worse than war.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.