Best Treaties Quotations
154 Treaties quotes by 128 unique authors
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Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
— Alexis Tsipras
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No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an…
— Condoleezza Rice
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It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing…
— Eisaku Sato
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If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we…
— Robert H. Jackson
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The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror.…
— Sergei Lukyanenko
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One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute…
— Frantz Fanon
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The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This…
— Andrew Johnson
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The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three…
— Bill Whittle
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The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
— Paul Valery
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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause.…
— William Jennings Bryan
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History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.
— Richard M. Nixon
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It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a…
— Angelina Jolie
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It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of…
— Vaclav Havel
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Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural…
— Elihu Root
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Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
— Richard Cobden
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The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
— Townsend Harris
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If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make…
— Townsend Harris
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If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should…
— Townsend Harris
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The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may…
— Townsend Harris
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When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been…
— Townsend Harris
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Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but…
— John F. Kerry
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Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in…
— Shigeru Yoshida
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