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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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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. – David Lloyd George

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