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Quotes About Diplomacy

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
~ Thomas Merton
Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.
~ Joschka Fischer
Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.
~ Lester B. Pearson
My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.
~ Gerald R. Ford
Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
One not need make peace with friends, only with enemies
~ Imi Lichtenfeld
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
~ Ferdinand Foch
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
~ Richard M. Nixon
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.
~ Philip Neri
Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
~ Robert Fulghum
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.
~ Abdullah Ocalan
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.
~ Adolf Hitler
Peace has no borders.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
~ Nelson Mandela
We make war that we may live in peace.
~ Aristotle
Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.
~ William Penn
Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.
~ Benjamin Banneker
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
~ Richard Cobden
Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?
~ Vladimir Putin
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.
~ Ève Curie
You can't shake hands with a closed fist.
~ Mahatma Gandhi