Quote by Will Rogers
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are

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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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. – Will Rogers

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If you want to be successful, its just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. – Will Rogers

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

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. – Charles de Gaulle

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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. – Di Cavour

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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse. – William James

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