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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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. Thats one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. – Will Rogers

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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. – Will Rogers

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With Congress, every time they make a joke its a law, and every time they make a law its a joke. – Will Rogers

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My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. – Carl Rowan

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

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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

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Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. – Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960

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