Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'
If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.
I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.
It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.
When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.
The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!
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