Famous quotes containing the words diplomatic, historians and/or start:
“I wouldn’t think of asking you to lie; you haven’t the necessary diplomatic training.”
—John Farrow. Consul in Valparaiso, The Sea Chase (1955)
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.”
—Curtis Siodmak (1902–1988)