We have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and dont forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers. – C.S. Lewis
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller
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
We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it. – Walt W. Rostow
My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. – Carl Rowan
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. – Sun-Tzu
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
