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Quotes About Diplomacy

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
~ Adlai Stevenson I
Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
~ Barack Obama
Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.
~ H.W. Brands
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
~ Rolf Hochhuth
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.
~ Stephen Decatur
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
~ Chinua Achebe
Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.
~ Lal Bahadur Shastri
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
~ George Washington
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
~ Shimon Peres
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
~ Kofi Annan
I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.
~ John Glenn
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
~ George Washington
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
~ John F. Kennedy
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
~ Michael Franti
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
~ William McKinley
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.
~ Kim Dae Jung
The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
~ Harri Holkeri
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.
~ Mohammed Morsi