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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. - Wa

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. – Walter Bagehot

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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. – Walter Bagehot

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Royalty, Kings, Queens
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Walter Bagehot
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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Opinion
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Walter Bagehot
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. – Will Rogers

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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. – Dean Acheson

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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. – Daniele Vare

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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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