Quotes about Diplomacy
Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.
— Elbert Hubbard
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.
— Hillary Clinton
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
— Joe Biden
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
— George Washington
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
— George W. Bush
A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish that they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.
— Marcus Aurelius
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
— Cicero
These people who govern us should not be so carried away by their own political power that they turn away from peace, but neither should they embrace a peace that is dishonorable.
— Cicero
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
— Madeleine Albright
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
— John F. Kennedy
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
— John F. Kennedy