Association Quote by Aristide Briand

I believe that a country's first duty is to set its own house in order; and having set its own house in order, it…

— George Cadle Price

Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.

— Christine Lagarde

The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one…

— John Quincy Adams

The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one…

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

— Thomas Jefferson

The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well…

— Alexander Hamilton

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may…

— Alexander Hamilton

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of…

— Frank Chodorov

Alliances are not a burden; they are a benefit to both our individual and our collective security.

— Lloyd Austin

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

It is not O.K. for one sovereignty to dictate to another which countries or organizations it may associate with.

— Antony Blinken