Quotes About Diplomacy

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

War is what happens when language fails.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

War is the trade of kings.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]