Quotes about Diplomacy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
- George Clooney
Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
- William McKinley
Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
- Alfred Nobel
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
- Albert Einstein
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
- Harry S. Truman
People do not make wars; governments do.
- Ronald Reagan
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
- Jimmy Carter
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
- Cicero