Quotes About Diplomacy

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

One thing we got to be thankful for our Soldiers can win wars faster than our Diplomats can talk us into them,

Fifty-four forty, or fight!

In 2009, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second-in-command, declared: 'He [Obama] is trying to say: "Do not hate us … but we will continue to kill you".

The United States is not concerned with this thing called 'democracy', no matter how many times every American president uses the word each time he opens his mouth. As noted in the Introduction, since 1945 the US has attempted to overthrow more than fifty governments, most of which were democratically elected, and grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least thirty countries.

The United States is not actually against terrorism per se, only those terrorists who are not allies of the empire.

When will the dropping of bombs on innocent civilians by the United States, and invading and occupying their country, without their country attacking or threatening the US, become completely discredited?

The ablest diplomat will never boast of understanding a man, but only his intentions.

He fought with Augustus and Peter, not with Russia or Poland. He aimed at full apologies, not conquests.

Tell me how you wish me to deal with these enemies of yours, for they are no able to camp, and I will deliver them in your hands in whatever manner you wish.' Modern accounts invariably include the story of how dal Verme sent Hawkwood a fox in a cage, to say that he had the clever Englishman trapped. -Jacopo dal Verme to Giangaleazzo Visconti

atomic war n. thermonuclear or nuclear exchange

but we did not come into India, as they did, at the head of great armies, with the avowed intention of subjugating the country. We crept in as humble barterers, whose existence depended on the bounty and favour of the lieutenants of the kings of Delhi; and the 'generosity' we have shown was but a small acknowledgement of the favours his ancestors had conferred to our race.

Barter and exchange is the business of merchants, not fighting of battles and dethroning of princes.

On 19 October 1774, the three Crown councillors appointed by the statutes of the Regulating Act, Philip Francis, General Clavering and Colonel Monson, finally docked in Calcutta. They were immediately offended to be given a seventeen-, not a twenty-one-gun salute, and by the 'mean and dishonourable' reception: 'there were no guards, no person to receive us or to show the way, no state.

as Edmund Burke famously put it, 'a state in the guise of a merchant'.

was not made clear in the Treaty.

Out of the range of practical politics.

Cessation of hostilities. War is over. If any Japanese airplanes appear, shoot them down in a friendly way.

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.

But my favorite story of Munger's flamboyant failures in diplomacy comes from Buffett, who shared it with Pabrai and Guy Spier over lunch in 2008. Munger, who has a glass eye, visited the Department of Motor Vehicles, where a hapless bureaucrat made the unfortunate error of asking him, "Do you still have just one good eye?" Munger replied, "No. I've grown a new one.