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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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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."
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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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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."
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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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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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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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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."
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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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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."
Diplomacy
"If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology."
Home
"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."
Politics
"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides."
Wealth
"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
Government
"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
Government
"Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in."
Adversity
"In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion."
War
"In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out."
Policy
"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
Media
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