Quotes About Diplomacy

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without having to fight them.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

Peace is more difficult than war.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!