Quotes About Diplomacy

For Cixi, what the Viceroy as done was best left unsaid.

You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can with a smile and a kind word. -Al Capone

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

The good leader in war is not warlike The good fighter is not impetuous; The best conqueror of the enemy is he who never takes the offensive. The man who gets the most out of men is the one who treats them with humility.3 Tyrants

have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

The best captain does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without the battle....

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

War ought to be no man's wish.

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very dangerous.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.