Quotes About Diplomacy

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

America has never gotten in a war because we were too strong.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.