"Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it."

Diplomacy, First, Force, Will

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"Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it."

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

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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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"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

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"The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable."

Mitchell Reiss, American Diplomat

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"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."

George Washington, American President

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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."

Charles de Gaulle, French Leader

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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

Wisdom

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

Identity

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."

Relationship

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

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"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."

Politics

"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it."

Duty

"We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times."

Hope

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."

Politics

"Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."

Education

"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment."

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