Treaties Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Religious, Rights, Israel

  "Muslim Brotherhood's rise sparks concern democracy will be fleeting in Egypt", www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2012.

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• One of the most serious [challenges] is increased military spending and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals. Enormous resources are being consumed for these purposes, when they could be spent on the development of peoples, especially those who are poorest. For this reason I firmly hope that, during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to be held this May in New York, concrete decisions will be made towards progressive disarmament, with a view to freeing our planet from nuclear arms

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, New York, Military

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• 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, Proliferation Treaty, People

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• The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding

  Andrew Johnson

  Law, Land, Judging

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866”, p.469, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, African Tribes, Fearless

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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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• If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

  Townsend Harris

  Desire, Firsts, England

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• Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

  John F. Kerry

  President, United States, Bakers

  John Kerry's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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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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• Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  America, Japan, Community

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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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• The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

  Paul Valery

  Motive, Settlement, Ought

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• I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Fighting, Winning, People

  Letter to Andrew Carnegie, January 13, 1899.

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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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• The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of the UN Charter, or violation of the Genocide Convention, these are things the US is exempt from, because they exempted themselves from being subjected to international treaties in World Court proceedings.

  Noam Chomsky

  Example, World, Invasion

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

  William Hague

  Too Late, Late

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• All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Zero, Nuclear, Use

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Commitment, Nuclear Disarmament, Proliferation Treaty

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Europe, Kyoto, Caps

  "POLITICO Q&A: Jim Sensenbrenner" by Lisa Lerer, www.politico.com. December 3, 2009.

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• There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Hands, Brave, Peaceful

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1949). “Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales”

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• The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Broken, Justice

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• In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.

  Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster

  Military, Believe, Army

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• All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.

  Chip Pashayan

  Gun, Law, Giving

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• What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.

  Dennis Banks

  School, Responsibility, Native American

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