You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
Kofi Atta Annan
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
When we\'re trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
Albright, Madeleine
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
Ambrose Bierce
DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose Bierce
Diplomacy - The art of letting other people achieve your ends
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Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
Randolph Bourne
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
Ambrose Bierce