As quoted in Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 432)
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1991/feb/28/the-gulf in the House of Commons (28 February 1991)
1990s
“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
Variant: War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
Source: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 24, in the Princeton University Press translation (1976)
Variant translation: War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.
Context: War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, The Threat of Nuclear War
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
“To North Korea, diplomacy is another form of war.”
"Stranger Than Fiction" https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/opinion/stranger-than-fiction.html The New York Times (13 February 2005)
2000s
“Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.”
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives
