Quotes About Diplomacy

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

We join the call from other States from our region

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Unfortunately, the war has cost America greatly - politically - throughout the world.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.

I can't see democracy occurring by force - after an Iraqi war, because of the fallout from that.

Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

Democracies don't go to war.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.