"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."

Diplomacy, Blood, Europe, Forget, Nations

93

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."

Exlpore more Diplomacy quotes

"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

Georges Simenon, Belgian Writer

Diplomacy, Light

"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together."

Angela Merkel, German Statesman

Diplomacy, Europe, Responsibility

"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."

Douglas Feith, American Public Servant

Diplomacy,

"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."

Amos Oz, Israeli Writer

Diplomacy, Draft, France, Israel, Majority

"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."

Andrew Young, American Clergyman

Diplomacy, Xerox

"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

Diplomacy, Truth, Tenderness, Soul, Humanity

"The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable."

Mitchell Reiss, American Diplomat

Diplomacy, Play, Saying

"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Diplomacy, Apology, Hurt, Insult, Party

"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."

George Washington, American President

Diplomacy, Politics, Independence, Commerce

"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."

George Washington, American President

Diplomacy, Harmony, Policy, Humanity

Explore more quotes by Winston Churchill

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."

War

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."

Wisdom

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Writing

"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Humor

"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."

Friendship

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Perception

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

Wisdom

"Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down."

Humor

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

Philosophy

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Leadership