67 Treaty Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. Sitting Bull

Broken Man Red Whites Kept Treaty

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. Sophocles

Impediment Cheat Ever Treaty

I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment. Shinzo Abe

Life Time You Peace Suffering Progress Cancer Father Job Own Politician Cold Bitter Visited Easy Risk He Moscow Make Learned Accomplishment Historic Trying Soviet Soviet Union May Being Your Union Treaty

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also. Sitting Bull

Made Country Assured Seven Threaten Only Take Also Buffalo Were Years Years Ago Left Forever Which Us Should Now Treaty

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House. Isoroku Yamamoto

Philippines White White House Enough Once States Francisco Sign Out Would Hawaii Take Between House Nor Break San San Francisco Japan Should Even Washington United United States March Treaty

The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them. James G. Stavridis

Nation NATO One Nation Shall Attack Clear Crystal Regarded Them Treaty

We'll uphold our treaty obligations, including the mutual defense agreement that is NATO. Mike Pence

Obligations NATO Defense Our Mutual Uphold Agreement Including Treaty

Unlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems. Noam Chomsky

Unlike Hundreds Systems Weapons Inspection Join Allow Delivery Advanced Non-Proliferation Israel Iran Refuses Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Treaty

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. Terry Eagleton

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. Noam Chomsky

Terrorism Justice Obligations Problem Law Way Right Way Evidence Tribunal Collected Exactly Followed Brought Highest Contempt Course Court Verdict Dealt Existing Which Dismissed Nicaragua International International Law Right Received Treaty

In addition to the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which is crucial to U.S. interests both domestically and in the Middle East, the U.S. has had and will continue to need Egypt's collaboration in the war on terrorism. Ahmed Zewail

Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter. Andrew Card

World Country Industrialized Around Process Flawed Treaty

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. Benigno Aquino III

Signal Strongest Perhaps Southeast Southeast Asia Asia Asian Cooperation Amity Treaty

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. Bernie Ecclestone

World Rome Now Need Treaty

Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew Jackson wanted to wipe them out. Dr. John

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 a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. Eisaku Sato

Government People Harmony Signed Pursuing Tenure Also Policy Non-Proliferation Conclusion Office Japanese Avowed Agreed Nuclear Desire Treaty

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 justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. Elihu Root

If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit. Emmanuel Macron

Market Must Total London Budget Like Access Exit Commercial Contribute Want Wants Then European Swiss British Treaty

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. Fred Thompson

Suffering People Alien Some People Own Think Our Our Planet Telling Mars Some Martian Scientists Led Wonder Fever Jupiter Experiencing Warming Us Planet Planetary Inhabited Now Actually Necessarily Treaty

According to Colombia's respected Escuela Nacional Sindical, as of April 2015, 105 union activists had been executed in the four years since Clinton's free-trade treaty went into effect. That's just trade unionists. Greg Grandin

Respected April Colombia Had Since Executed Trade Been Years Clinton Effect According Just Union Activists Four Treaty

Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour, he preserved the peace. He improved relations with the Soviet Union and replaced tension over Berlin with a limited test ban treaty. Gretchen Rubin

War Peace Dangerous Preserved Cold President Relations Berlin Only He Tension Tenure Over Days Hour Most Limited Test His Ban Replaced Improved Soviet Soviet Union Short Achieved Much Union Kennedy Treaty

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? Henry Cabot Lodge

Great Peace World Long Experiment Back Benefit Deformed Carry Purpose Tainted Had Noble Ideals Tied Been Confined Which Might Bargain Rider Compelled Treaty

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