Treaties Quotes - Page 13

• Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury.

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, Russia, Pieces

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• You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Needs, Libertarian

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• Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Democracy, Principles, Austerity

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• If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Criminals, United States, Doe

  International Conference on Military Trials in London, 1945. Minutes of Conference Session, avalon.law.yale.edu. July 23, 1945.

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• But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

  Robert Ardrey

  Dream, Stars, Angel

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  Aaron Huey

  God, Tired, Government

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• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  Karl Marlantes

  Veterans Day, War, Starting

  "A war hero returns home, 40 years later" By John Blake, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2012.

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