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No nation has friends only interests.

— Charles De Gaulle

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

— Edwidge Danticat

Friends are nations in themselves.

— Emily Dickinson

Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.

— Sharice Davids

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

— Martin Schulz

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.

— Isaac Herzog

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

— Randolph Bourne

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

— Henri Nouwen

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not…

— Benjamin Harrison

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

There cannot be friendship without equality.

— Swami Vivekananda