193 Quotes About Diplomacy

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294

In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.

IF you draw a line in the sand you betray the loyalty of your cause

I observe and remain silent.

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

The true masters of strategy use war sparingly.