All war represents a failure of diplomacy

All war represents a failure of diplomacy

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing read more

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.

I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, read more

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.