Quotes About Diplomacy

My father showed the exact sort of talent for a statesman. He could have divided Poland as easily as an orange, or trod on Ireland as quietly and systematically as any living.

The absence of war is not peace.

The United nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members

It is important to the peace of the world to understand each other and have full faith in each other's sincerity. That is all we ask; that is all we want[...]

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River they don't call out the National Guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we cannot do that internationally.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

There is a right kind and wrong kind of victory, just as there are wars for the right thing and wars that are wrong from every standpoint…. The kind of victory MacArthur had in mind—victory by the bombing of Chinese cities, victory by expanding the conflict to all of China—would have been the wrong kind of victory.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

The President may have a great many powers given to him by the Constitution and may have certain powers under certain laws which are given to him by the Congress of the United States; but the principal power that the President had is to bring people in and try to persuade them to do what they ought to do without persuasion.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

The United States are here, as are we; our two nations have a common border which stretches for two thousand miles, more or less. Either we learn not to be distracted by our differences or we fight a war every generation, as the nations of Europe are in the habit of doing. I would not care to see such folly come to our shores.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

I can be agreeable," said Fairweller. "If the other party is." "Oh,well," said Bramble. "There goes that, then.

With the Five Gifts, we can solve our problems without shooting each other.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

The ability to persuade not only one's people but also allies and enemies was a vital attribute of the successful strategist. In this way, strategy required a combination of words and deeds, and the ability to manipulate them both.

El poder para hacer daño es poder para negociar. La capacidad para explotarlo se llama diplomacia, una diplomacia perversa, pero diplomacia».