Treaties Quotes

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo Bill

Government, Broken, Known

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle

Young, Last, While

We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.
David Cameron

Power, Strong, Together

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

Last, While, Roses

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
David Suzuki

Business, Help, May

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

Peace, Men, Made

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

Law, Though, Land

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
Nigel Farage

Before, Lives, Everyday

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck

Great, Struggle, Between

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

Power, Old, Secret

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

Peace, Equality, Rights

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
Frank B. Kellogg

Peace, War, Through

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
Bianca Jagger

Human, Law, Away

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Time, Laws, Period

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
James Q. Wilson

Peace, Power, Struggle

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
Anna Lindh

Together, Security, Community

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.
Jose Manuel Barroso

Founded, Apply, Member

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
Richard Cobden

Peace, War, Made

But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
Hjalmar Schacht

Peace, War, Moral

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
Ludwig Quidde

End, Number, Toward

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
Ludwig Quidde

Great, Made, Progress

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
Robert Toombs

Great, Justice, Special

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 made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.
Townsend Harris

Made, Rest, United

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

War, Trade, Relations

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.
Donald Tusk

Country, Become, Both

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
Preston Manning

Big, Problems, Loss

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
Fredric Jameson

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