A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either rods or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
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Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
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There are a few ironclad rules of diplomancy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
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He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing.
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There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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This is simply a new phase of diplomacy, an extension of diplomatic efforts to find a solution.
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Diplomacy is telling someone to 'Go to Hell' in such a way, they look forward to taking the trip.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
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If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
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Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.
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Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superinte...
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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954)
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.
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Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
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Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
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