#diplomacy

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. ↗

— Warren W. Wiersbe

#hypocrisy #love #tact #truth #truth-telling

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#militarism #victory

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#failed #forced #miserably #now #president

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. ↗

— Will Durant

#diplomacy #especially #half #nothing #say

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#balances #devices #diplomacy #during #fascism

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy. ↗

— Esther Williams

#diplomacy #done #had #mouth #much

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. ↗

— Andrew Young

#diplomacy #invented #once #xerox

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. ↗

— John Bolton

#diplomacy #does #end #interests #itself

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#arrive #authority #congress #diplomacy #encouraging

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#capitals #countries #diplomacy #goals #government