Quotes About Diplomacy

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.