"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

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"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."

Aristide Briand, French Statesman

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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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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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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."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Diplomacy, Home, Lie, Lying, May

"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

Diplomacy, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Happiness

"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

Diplomacy, Mind, Right

"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

Diplomacy, America, Humor, Power

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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

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"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

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"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

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"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."

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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."

"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."

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

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

"The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all."

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."