"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Diplomacy, Peace, Nations, Want

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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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"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

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

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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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."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

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"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."

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

"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

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

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

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever."

"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."

"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it."

"France has more need of me than I have need of France."

"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."