"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."

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"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."

John Breaux, American Politician

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand."

Henry L. Stimson, American Statesman

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"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."

Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

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"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."

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"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."

"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."

"Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."

"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

"We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand."

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