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Quotes About Diplomacy

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.
~ George C. Marshall
Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic
~ David Cortright
Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
~ William Cowper
The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
~ Warren Christopher
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
~ Richard Cobden
What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].
~ Uri Avnery
In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.
~ Jimmy Carter
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
~ Francois Hollande
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.
~ Roger Ebert
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
~ George W. Bush
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.
~ James Madison
Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
~ Natan Sharansky
So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.
~ Michael Howard
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.
~ John Lennon
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
~ Xavier Becerra
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.
~ Wendell Phillips
When I say something, I mean it. The world needs to have a Palestinian state that is free and at peace.
~ Bill Hemmer