Quotes of Treaty - somelinesforyou

“ Treaties are like roses and young girls — they last while they last. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. ”

- Bernie Ecclestone

“ The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms. ”

- Yitzhak Rabin

“ Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties. ”

- Stanley Hoffmann

“ As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties. ”

- Arthur Henderson

“ The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization. ”

- Dave Barry

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

- Herbert Clark Hoover

“ He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ”

- Barbara Tuchman

“ When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ”

- Plato

“ I walked out in the night a while ago. The stars are bright, the night is silent, the country quiet-as quiet as peace itself. Millions of men are in camp and on warships. Will they all have to fight and many of them die-to untangle this network of treaties and alliances and to blow off huge debts with gunpowder so that the world may start again? ”

- Walter H. Page

“ The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it. ”

- King Hassan II

“ In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations. ”

- Arthur Henderson

“ The European Union and Russia have an identical viewpoint. We have condemned any potential revision of the ABM treaty, believing that such a revision will involve a risk of proliferation that will be very dangerous for the future. ”

- Jacques Chirac

“ A treaty, in the minds of our people, is an eternal word. Events often make it seem expedient to depart from the pledged word, but we are conscious that the first departure creates a logic for the second departure, until there is nothing left of the word. ”

- Declaration of Indian Purpose

“ The United States has led in all these things, been in the vanguard of the development of the techniques. So it seems to me that the United States should not be thought of as dragging its foot on environmental quality, but rather questioning the appropriateness of a treaty that has never been submitted to the Senate for debate and consideration. ”

- Howard Baker

“ I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country… ”

- Richard Henry Tawney

“ There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act… ”

- Maurice Blanchot
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