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All war represents a failure of diplomacy. - Tony Benn International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one. - Ambrose Bierce There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly. - Dwight David Eisenhower Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg, in "The Reflex" No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals. - Irving Kristol Animosity is not a policy. - Henry Cabot Lodge Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly. - Theodore Roosevelt The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which they base their hopes for a better future for the world. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, The Atlantic Charter Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. - Joseph Stalin It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. - George Washington
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