Quotes about Diplomacy
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
— James K. Polk
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
— Thomas Paine
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
— Thomas Jefferson
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'
— George Clooney
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
— Wendell Berry
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
— Ronald Reagan
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
— Cicero
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
— Ronald Reagan
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.
— George W. Bush
There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.
— Albert Einstein