Quotes about Diplomacy
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
— Grover Cleveland
I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles.
— Grover Cleveland
Choose the path of dialogue rather than the path of unilateral decisions.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
— Joe Biden
I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
— Hillary Clinton
The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
— Thomas Jefferson
Let what will be said or done, preserve your sangfroid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing language.
— Thomas Jefferson
We must therefore… hold them [the British] as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
— Thomas Jefferson