Quotes About Diplomacy

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

What we need is a generation of peace.

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

[The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew nation for the common good of all.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

We want peace, but not at any price.