Quotes About Diplomacy

You are a real champion. You talk a lot over the past six months and it is going to be great to show you inside the ring how it is better to resolve wars. Let's talk in the office.

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

We always desire peace yet we prepare to go to war.

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

He thinks Goliath can end the war, " Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all, " Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

Nobody could rule this world merely by peace.

A bad peace is worse than war.