“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
Mark Twain
“Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.”
Bernard Meltzer
“Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.”
Wayne Abernathy
“Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.”
Isaac Goldberg
“Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron”
Joseph Stalin
“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
“Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts, ... Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.”
Daniel Pipes
