Quotes about Diplomacy
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
— John F. Kennedy
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world - as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.
— George Washington
Without tact you can learn nothing.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a "feel" for the proper words or responses to a delicate situation.
— J. Oswald Sanders
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
— John F. Kennedy
We still seek no wider war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
— Martin Luther
If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.
— Harry S. Truman
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.
— John F. Kennedy
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
— Lyndon B. Johnson