Treaties Quotes - Page 3

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

  Nigel Farage

  Europe, Law, Everyday

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• History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Broken, Junkyard, Pathetic

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• No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Agreement, Constitution, International

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• A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Constitution, Made

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers [contin.] 1794-1795. [Miscellanies, 1794-1795] Military papers. 1798-1800. Correspondence [contin.] 1789-1795”, p.121

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• I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Believe, Dutch, Rejected

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• Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

  Tom Segev

  War, Egypt, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the war. They can lie, they can deceive, they can break their treaties as Muhammad did, they can ambush or use terror, assassinate, massacre the children and bomb civilians. Muslims can even kill each other as long as this improves their chance of winning.

  Ali Sina

  Children, Lying, War

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, Agreement, America

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty.

  Tupac Shakur

  Love You, Disrespect, Peace Treaties

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• War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements.  There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity.  The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment.  Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Hunger Poverty, People

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• The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Fear, People, Important

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

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• That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

  Michael Hudson

  Magic, Taxation, Shops

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Matter, Stills

  Source: sangam.org

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• I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

  Paul Samuelson

  Writing, Law, Textbooks

  "Foreword" by Paul Samuelson in "The Principles of Economics Course" edited by ed. Phillips Saunders and William B. Walstad, 1990.

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• The aim of the Constitutional Treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.

  Karel De Gucht

  Constitution, Aim, Clear

  "Dominc Lawson: Pessimism is Brown's enemy on Europe". www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 2007.

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• If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

  Peter Mandelson

  Squares, Europe, Insecurity

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• It seems to me to be a way to give the Clinton Administration an opportunity to sidestep the issue of whether to announce they're going to withdraw from the ABM treaty, or whether they're going to go ahead and proceed with construction and be hopeful the Russians are not going to accuse them of violating the treaty.

  Thad Cochran

  Opportunity, Issues, Giving

  " Administration lawyers argue ABM treaty allows start on missile defense system", www.cnn.com. June 15, 2000.

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Deception

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.

  Alan Cranston

  Matter, Arsenal, No Matter What

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• While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, May

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.

  Arnold Leese

  Mother, Japan, Two

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• World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Creating, People, Leader

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• Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry.  Fear never saved a marriage or a business.  Courage did that.  Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that.  But fear itself?  Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors.  Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Faith, Country

  Max Lucado (2012). “Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, War, Arbitration

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.101

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• It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

  Vaclav Havel

  Goal, Understanding, Purpose

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