Quotes about Diplomacy

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

When you want to convert someone to your view, you go over to where he is standing, take him by the hand (mentally speaking), and guide him. You don't stand across the room and shout at him; you don't call him a dummy; you don't order him to come over to where you are. You start where he is, and work from that position. That's the only way to get him to budge.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

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.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

means seeing both sides of the story and working towards a mutually beneficial situation for everyone.