Quotes about Diplomacy
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim
— Thomas Paine
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
— Abraham Lincoln
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
— Abraham Lincoln
I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.
— John Adams
means seeing both sides of the story and working towards a mutually beneficial situation for everyone.
— Donald Trump
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I want to keep the peace. I want to be gentle, not confrontational.
— Lysa TerKeurst
remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response
— Lysa TerKeurst
The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.
— Madeleine Albright
I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
— Madeleine Albright