'Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell and making them anticipate the trip.'

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

There is no gambling like politics.

He has-and there's no point being prissy about this-pinned a large target sign on this country. What he can't or won't do is ask for concessions in return whic…

Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.

The greatest reason for Japan's participation in the Triple Alliance lies in the fact that the three signatory powers, at this time of great change in the worl…