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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"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."
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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."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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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."
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"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."
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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."
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"A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages."
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"We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO."
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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
Success
"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."
Life
"Finality is not the language of politics."
Politics
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
Politics
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
Health
"London is a modern Babylon."
Politics
"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."
Humor
"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
Humility
"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
Truth
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
Attitude
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