"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."

Diplomacy, Home, Lie, Lying, May

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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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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Diplomacy, War, Peace, Conflict, Resolution

"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."

Aristide Briand, French Statesman

Diplomacy, Europe, Nations

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

Ronald Reagan, American President

Diplomacy, Mother, Sacrifice, Gain, Ideology

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

Ronald Reagan, American President

Diplomacy, Israel, Security

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

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Diplomacy, Alliance, Commerce, Nations

"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."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Diplomacy, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Happiness

"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

Diplomacy, Mind, Right

"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Diplomacy, Tongue, Language, Silence

"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Diplomacy, America, Humor, Power

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Diplomacy, Truth, Power, Kindness, Communication

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

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"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."

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"On the virtuous man "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself."

Virtue

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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."

"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."

"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

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"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"Writing is the geometry of the soul."

"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."

"Necessity who is the mother of our invention."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"On the virtuous man "He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself."