Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

quote by Frederick the Great
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Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

quote by Albert J. Nock
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And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

quote by Frank Carlucci
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All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954)

quote by Enlai Zhou
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

quote by Charles de Gaulle
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

quote by Carey Williams
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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

quote by Karl Kraus
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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

quote by Lincoln Chafee
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

quote by Robert Frost
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

quote by Peter Ustinov
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To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

Greek proverbs
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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

quote by David Frost
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

quote by Karl Kraus
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Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.

quote by Isaac Goldberg
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

quote by Isaac Goldberg
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

quote by Peter Ustinov
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Media has no heart

Praise Rama as well as Ravna
So that you please both sections,
Which is what newspapers do
And which is what diplomats do.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

quote by Trygve Lie
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

quote by Ambrose Bierce
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Obama Witch Hunted For Exposing Diplomatic Deceit?

generation slaves are afraid to win freedom
afraid to flex mind muscles face hard truths
cow tow to masters wear ownership brands
afraid to think to know own rulership truths

what Robin Hood hero must brave arise in new age
oppose illuminati enslavement liberty stolen orders
who dares publish US secret diplomatic spy cables
WikiLeaks website will tear spin strip bare web lies

only one prime question remains on international soap
opera stage will British peons sacrilege destroy sanctity
of global embassies' diplomatic status in spite revenge
because Assange was bold leaking government secrets?

who fool script wrote UK using terrorist tactics to storm
an embassy in style remix Iranian railroaded false charges
past model CIA hit South American too quickly forgotten?
spy umbrella stabbing public fatal poison lacks warnings?

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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