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

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

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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

Anne Lamott, American Author

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."

Amos Oz, Israeli Writer

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"Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets."

Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

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

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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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."

Warren Christopher, American Statesman

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Explore more quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."

Science

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

Cause

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

Friendship

"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

Freedom

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."

Religion

"One man with courage is a majority."

Courage

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

Freedom

"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."

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"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."

Leadership

"The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them."

Society