Alliances Quotes - Page 3

• Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Hate, War, Mean

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.169, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Men, Two

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, Army, Territory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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• Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Successful, Triumph, Found

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

  H. G. Wells

  Class, Able, Achieve

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.351, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

  Niki Lauda

  Air, Cost, Berlin

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

  Fidel Castro

  Progress, Millionaire, Beggar

  Interview with C. L. Sulzberger, November 7, 1964.

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• When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.

  Robert Reich

  Kids, Boys, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Military, Islamic, Exaggeration Is

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• Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

  Chuck Hagel

  Agility, Problem, Credibility

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• Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Years, People, Done

  "BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR / ELIOT SPITZER / N.Y. attorney general ferrets out funds' abuses" by Pia Sarkar, www.sfgate.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  H. Rap Brown

  People, Community, Black

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• I, for one, begin with intent. ... There is no question that Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.

  Tommy Franks

  Pregnancy, America, United States

  "Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack". www.newsmax.com. November 20, 2003.

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• Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

  John Amery

  Dream, Father, War

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Mean, Power, Secret

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• We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

  Ron Kind

  Leadership, White, Goal

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• We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

  Peter MacKay

  Country, Stress, Support

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• Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In my next-to-last conversation with him, which was about six months before Tiananmen Square, he said to me that his aim would be the next phase to reduce the Communist Party to philosophical issues. And I said, "What's a philosophical issue?" And he said, "Well, like if we make an alliance with Russia." Given his view of Russia, that was not the likeliest thing that would ever happen.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Philosophical, Party, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Those who do not know the plans of competitors cannot prepare alliances. Those who do not know the lay of the land cannot maneuver their forces. Those who do not use local guides cannot take advantage of the ground.

  Sun Tzu

  Land, Lobbyists, Lobbying

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.167, Shambhala Publications

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• Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Creating, Ownership

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• I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Giving, Forever, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 31: 1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• There are solutions that are proper, but they require the painstaking and difficult work of building alliances and also being prepared to analyze the problem realistically. And exactly the same thing is going on my side of the Atlantic as is going on your side of the Atlantic.

  Tony Blair

  Difficult Work, Your Side, Sides

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Military, War, Doe

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• All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Liberty, Serious

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

  John Quincy Adams

  War, Ambition, Color

  Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.

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