Treaties Quotes

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

— William Hague

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Treaties are often written in paper and ink. War, is carved by stone in blood.”

— Anonymous

All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.

— Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

— Townsend Harris

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

— Herbert Hoover

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

— Richard M. Nixon

The Kyoto treaty ... has no scientific foundation

— Andrey Illarionov

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

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Plato

All too often politicians sign treaties in a hurry, without reading them properly, and without understanding where they will lead.

— Chris Grayling

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

— Jamie Dimon

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

— Jeremy Thomas

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks

— Paul Samuelson

I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will…

— Hillary Clinton

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

— Ralph Nader

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its…

— Fredric Jameson

The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it…

— William J. Clinton

We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal…

— Max Fisher

In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication…

— Arthur C. Clarke

If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does…

— Robert H. Jackson

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true…

— James Madison

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

You recalled the 1956 declaration, and this declaration established the rules that should be followed by both sides and that should be…

— Vladimir Putin

Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center…

— Edward Snowden

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions.…

— Lord Chesterfield

In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part,…

— Alan Bersin

There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward…

— Vladimir Putin

it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They…

— Frances Trollope

We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the…

— Harrison Ford

“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email…

— Melina Marchetta

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

— Murray Rothbard

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

— Charles de Gaulle

Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

— Matteo Salvini

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it…

— Viviane Reding

The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy…

— Nelson A. Miles

France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence…

— Frank B. Kellogg

Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

— Nelson A. Miles