Quotes about Diplomacy
We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.
— Barack Obama
My only hope was to be polite.
— Mark Vonnegut
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
— Mark Twain
But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.
— George W. Bush
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
— Zig Ziglar
If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.
— Ariel Sharon
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.
— Edmund Burke
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
— Alexander Hamilton
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
— Alexander Hamilton
Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.
— Alexander Hamilton