Diplomacy

Raymond Aron sur la guerre froide - Paix improbable, guerre impossible.

Ambrose Bierce (in The Devil's Dictionary) - Alliance: in international politics, when two thieves have their hands plunged so deeply into each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third party.

Sir Winston Churchill (to Neville Chamberlain) - You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.

Traditional - The first law of diplomacy is: it's not the other side you need to worry about, but your own.

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