Quotes About Diplomacy

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!

Those who start wars, never fight them, And those who fight wars, they never like them...

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

Belligerents always abolish war after a war.

I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

The power of making war often prevents it.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.