Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 23 Diplomacy quotesDiplomacy QuotesDiplomacy Next 20 quotes Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.~ Yassir Arafat Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.~ Ambrose Bierce Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.~ Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.~ Anne Bradstreet Integrity has no need of rules.~ Albert Camus You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.~ G. R. Capp A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.~ Sir Winston Churchill The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.~ Sir Winston Churchill When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.~ Sir Winston Churchill Diplomats are only useful in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.~ Charles DeGaulle Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.~ Tokugawa Ieyasu Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.~ P. J. O'Rourke Whatever it is that government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.~ P. J. O'Rourke Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.~ Plato Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.~ General Colin Powell So our record of living our values and letting our values be an inspiration to others I think is clear. And I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of or apologize for with respect to what America has done for the world. We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home ... to live our own lives in peace.~ General Colin Powell A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.~ Jonathan Rauch Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.~ Will Rogers Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print