Quotes About Diplomacy

Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

I never believed in the danger of a third world war.

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.