Quotes About Diplomacy

hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.

It is for men to make wage war and make peace; for that task is theirs.

War will not save us

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

Organizational politics is an inescapable reality of corporate and public life.

Of all the big cities in the world where I've been, the Muscovites seemed to be the politest of people to strangers. But perhaps that was because we were Negroes, and, at that time, with the Scottsboro case on world-wide trial in the papers everywhere and especially in Russia, folks went out of their way to show us courtesy. On a crowded bus, nine times out if ten, some Russian would say, 'Negrochanski tovarish--Negro comrade--take my seat!

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Weapons by themselves don't provoke

We ain't having no more futile wars. Till we have one in the Middle East.

The General Assembly of the United Nations," the broadcaster read, "by a vote of thirty-three in favor, thirteen against and ten abstentions, has voted to partition Palestine.

The president doesn't have the luxury of behaving like a smart-aleck kid on a school playground; he has to work not just with Congress but with leaders around the world.

things like toothpastes from around the world and a shoe once thrown at the head of a former president of the United States.

Magellan came across Arabs in the Spanish hemisphere, he was to treat them well

make a treaty of peace or commerce with the king or lord of that land" before he attempted to load the goods onto his ships.

Magellan referred the distinguished members of the Casa to a clause in the Treaty of Tordesillas

Two years later, in 1512, Solis, deftly manipulating the levers of influence, rehabilitated himself, and King Ferdinand

when King Manuel wished to take the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella as his wife

The prospect of a Portuguese leading a Spanish expedition through Portuguese waters

the first clause, King Charles appeared to accede to Magellan's insistence on a ten-year exclusive:

Magellan, who left nothing to accident, had an assignment for Pigafetta; the young Italian diplomat

Serrão carefully cultivated Ternate's small ruling class, especially its king, and tried to promote trade between Ternate and Portugal

persuaded Charles V of rival Spain to back the project.

but in any event his geographical legerdemain alleviated Spain's principal anxiety:

Magellan's expedition to the Spice Islands must not violate the treaty.