Thomas Jefferson Quotes

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Let the king consider as hostile his immediate neighbor and the enemy of such a foe, as friendly.

With friends you use reason and logic. With enemies you use violence.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

It takes years to turn enmity to amity.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

The only thing I can say to the people of Israel is that I love them and I am a strong ally.

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.