The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and s...trategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliance...s, and, during the interwar period, appeasement of Fascism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplo...macy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called... by no meaner name than diplomacy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vien...na M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it ca...n safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[James G. Blaine's] devotion to the public interests, his marked ability, and his exalted patriotism have won for him the gratitud...e and affection of his countrymen and the admiration of the world. In the varied pursuits of legislation, diplomacy, and literature his genius has added new luster to American citizenship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreig...n intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key ... and bolt the door at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »