
“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_03_08utah.htm.
2000
“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
“I slowly strangle my enemies with a velvet glove.”
Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.
Quoted in "Italienisch-ostafrika(1936-1941)" - Page 18 - by Stefan Plenk - 2008
Part One, chapter 2, page 12
1990s, Why Government Doesn't Work (1996)
“If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist”
1961, Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Context: If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist-in economic, political, scientific and all the other kinds of struggles as well as the military-then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.
“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”
From 'Michael Angelo' (published posthumously), as included in The poetical works, Houghton Mifflin (1887), p. 316.
Part One, chapter 2, page 12
1990s, Why Government Doesn't Work (1996)