Treaties Quotes

• Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, Heart, Men

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• Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, Long, Harmony

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.

  Winona LaDuke

  Land, Water, Healthy

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• In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

  Louis XIV

  Agreement, Broken, States

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• The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Russia, Political

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• Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Girl, Flower, Government

  "François Hollande 'will retain Franco-British defence ties' as president" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

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• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Struggle, Reality, Survival

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• No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

  Sophocles

  Cheating, Cheat, Impediments

  "Fragments", l (671),

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• As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

  "Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli". The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 04, 1796.

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• Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Maintenance, Guarantees

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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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• What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, Broken, Red Lipstick

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• Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Land, Constitution

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• George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

  Bianca Jagger

  Law, Walking Away, Rights

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• Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Issues, Looks, Damage

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• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Drinking, Years, Kyoto

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

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• As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Army, Class, Germany

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• France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Navy, France, Naval

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• The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Real, Thinking, Kyoto

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• The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

  Black Elk

  Country, Fall, Moon

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Organization, Asia, East

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  Plato

  War, Order, Tyrants

  Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.260, Anchor

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• If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sometimes, Businessman

  "Letter to an American". Essay by Antoine de Saint Exupery, www.416th.com. July 1944.

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• Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims

  James Q. Wilson

  Peace, Struggle, People

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• It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

  Hans Frank

  Dream, Peace, Mean

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