Alliances Quotes

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, Honesty, War

First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

John F. Kennedy

Deeds, Concrete, Constructs

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.520, Best Books on

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There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Interest, Permanent

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To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

Robert Jordan

Fighting, Ravens, Battle

Robert Jordan (2010). “Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.14, Macmillan

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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry A. Kissinger

Chance, Remember, Our Future

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.

Sun Tzu

Strong, War, Enemy

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Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

Richard Branson

Competition, Growth, Survival

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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the other

Thucydides

Party, Bases

Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

Joe Lieberman

Strong, Mean, Community

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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

Fred Allen

Love, Stay Strong, Goal

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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Adolf Hitler

Military, War, Rise To Power

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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Thomas Jefferson

War, Liberty, Motto

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.425

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An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

Walter Lippmann

Offering, Stronger, Links

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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Law, Evil, Stronger

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For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.

Mal Fletcher

Focus, Problem

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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Chuck Hagel

Leadership, Mean, Opportunity

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Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

Wes Fesler

Ignorance, Diversity, Enemy

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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Ogden Nash

Relationship, Marriage, Funny Birthday

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Names, Volunteer

Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

Peter Drucker

Art, War, Two

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So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

Steve Case

Years, Partnership, Economy

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I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.

Thomas Jefferson

War, Europe, Government

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.375

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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Sydney Smith

Mistake, Errors, Dangerous

Rev. Sydney Smith (1855). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy”, p.16

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No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

Anatoly Karpov

Benefits, Chess, Should

"Even a dickhead will do a better job than Ilyumzhinov". Interview with Hartmut Metz, en.chessbase.com.

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