"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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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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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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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."

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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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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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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

James Reston, American Journalist

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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."

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"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."

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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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"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

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"Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last."

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"No nation has friends only interests."

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"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."

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"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."

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"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines."

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"The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute."

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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

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