Treaties Quotes - Page 2

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

  David Suzuki

  Agreement, Organization, Citizens

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• The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

  Townsend Harris

  Wish, President, May

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• 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

  Equality, Rights, Firsts

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• The countries outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty also are bound by that obligation [ Article Six of the treaty] according to, at least it's a strong implication of, a 1996 opinion of the International Court of Justice.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Strong, Proliferation Treaty

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

  Richard Cobden

  War, Individual, Made

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.102

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• Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Fighting, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.43, Penguin

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• However, the treaty exists and it puts us in a different position toward the Soviet Union than the one we have toward other countries. Yes, the treaty exists. Nor does it exist on only one side. Look how w3e're situated geographically and you'll see that India is very important for the Soviet Union.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Important, India

  Source: sangam.org

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• As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Office, President, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes were committed could demand that the convicts' country of origin incarcerate the prisoners for the terms to which they were sentenced.... Foreign felons in U.S. prisons are exacerbating out budget and law enforcement problems.... We will never get countries to take back their prisoners unless we have some leverage. NAFTA gives us that opportunity.

  Kathleen Brown

  Country, Opportunity, Law

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• 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

  Numbers, Propaganda, Resolution

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

  Buffalo Bill

  Broken Heart, Government, Broken Promises

  Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill Historical Center (1996). “Buffalo Bill Museum”, Buffalo Bill Historical Center

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• 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

  War, Home, Writing

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• 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

  Memories, War, People

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 754), 1946.

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• I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Sanctity, Relation, Foreign Policy

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

  Nelson A. Miles

  War, Subjugation, Relation

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.341, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Law, Saws, Parliament

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• 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

  Agreement, Iraq, Community

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• 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

  Umpires, Progress, Arbitration

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• 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

  Country, Japan, United States

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• 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

  Justice, Special, Principles

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.5

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• 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. To 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

  Strong, Believe, Europe

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Race, White, Atrocities

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.

  Vladimir Putin

  Past, Japan, Issues

  Source: www.rt.com

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• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

  Plato

  Peace, War, Tyrants

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• 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

  Country, Years, Forever

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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