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• The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Self, Evil

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• It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Determination, Peace, War

  Kellogg-Briand Pact Speech at Wausau, Wisconsin, www.drpsychotic.com. August 15, 1928.

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• Because love stands above Darkness and Light.Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children."Because love is also Power.And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sex, Children, Love Is

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• The Kyoto Treaty wasn't perfect, but we signed it, in fact, helped to draft it. And I'm very proud of it, it was the world's first commitment to doing something comprehensive on greenhouse gases and trying to reduce global warming before we do irreversible damage to many civilizations around the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Commitment, Civilization, Kyoto

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

  Doe, Arms, Pages

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• In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

  Umberto Eco

  Peace, War, Ifs

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Spiritual, Years, Building Up

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• Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Might, Firsts

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• I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize.

  Shai Agassi

  Country, Israel, Land

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

  Dave Barry

  Attitude, Organization, Term

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• If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

  Douglas Hurd

  Prime, Ministers, Has Beens

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• 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

  Believe, Russia, Risk

  "Debates of the Senate". www.parl.gc.ca. February, 8, 2001.

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• Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

  Jerry Brown

  Thinking, Missiles

  "All In with Chris Hayes, Transcript". www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• This (environmental treaty) process has nothing to do with the weather. It has nothing to do with man's impact on the weather. It has everything to do with establishing the socialist international at the heart of the UN and making every nation bow the knee to this new dictatorship, and the climate is merely a fig leaf to cover what they are trying to do.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Heart, Men, Weather

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• The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.

  Fred Ikle

  Country, Moscow, Research

  "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.

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• Let your Neshuma (soul) be the real inspiration. You have a soul, you have a spirit, don't lock it in a box and forget it... Let's make this a better world... We dare not assume that the next century will have less hatred or murders than the past centuries. How can we? Are the weapons of tomorrow less harmful? Are the leaders more dependable? Are our peace treaties more durable? Are our ethics more honorable? Time is running out... We must hurry.

  Benjamin M. Friedman

  Running, Real, Inspiration

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• 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

  Law, Justice, Nicaragua

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• ... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, War, Taken

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The war in the Northwest (cont'd). The Indian wars, 1784-1787. St. Clair and Wayne”

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• I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, Influence, Proportion

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Europe, Two, Goal

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• 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

  War, May, Paper

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• We assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We remain committed to limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons through our international treaty obligations, and national programmes.

  Geoff Hoon

  Nuclear, Development, Weapons

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• People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.

  Paul McCartney

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "McCartney, wife host land mine benefit". The Associated Press, www.today.com. November 16, 2005.

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• The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

  Dave Barry

  Marine, Two, Leader

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to a Social Chapter but not within the treaty and without Britain's participation. It sets a vital precedent. For an enlarged Community can only function if we build in flexibility of that kind... John Major deserves high praise for ensuring at Maastricht that we would not have either a Single Currency or the absurd provisions of the Social Chapter forced upon us: our industry, workforce, and national prosperity will benefit as a result.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Moving, Government, Achievement

  "Europe’s Political Architecture". Margaret Thatcher's Speech, www.margaretthatcher.org. May 15, 1992.

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