Quotes About Diplomacy

You cannot mix sports with politics.

khans, and settling disputes of various kinds

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.

The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.

poder blando y poder duro. Define el último como un poder que "asienta en incentivos (recompensas) y amenazas", sonde el primero se caracteriza por "lograr los resultados deseados atrayendo al otro en lugar de manipularlo o amenazarlo".

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

War-waging and peace-making are as old as ants and apes.

My wife is a diplomate. If ever I am president of the United States—which may Heaven forbid,—she shall be secretary of State. She never argues; but she always carries her point.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Tell the Vietnamese they've got to draw in their horns or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

We still seek no wider war.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)

At court you must say less than you think and only speak as much of the truth as will do you good.

If she takes me to task over this, shall I tell her you attacked the trees?" "We had no treaty with the forest," Saruel replied serenely.

relations between the crusaders and the Byzantine emperor were seldom cordial.

The German embassy in Washington had spent thousands of dollars to send fifty isolationist Republican congressmen to the convention to work for the adoption of an isolationist platform.