Quotes About Diplomacy

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

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

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

Meeting Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. I got it from Sumner Welles.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

The government had to choose between shame and war. They have chosen shame, and now they will get war.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas….5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name…. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.