Quotes About Diplomacy

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

War is out of date, obsolete.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

We still seek no wider war.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.