"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."

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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."

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"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

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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."

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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."

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"France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war."

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"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless."

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"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."

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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

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"I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them."

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"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

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"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"

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"Old age is a shipwreck."

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