Quotes About Alliances

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

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

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

No nation has friends only interests.

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

It's next to impossible to build a successful business without relationships.

In this day of strategic alliances and power networks, it's literally impossible to build large-scale, long-lasting success without world-class relationship skills, including in social media.

Alliances with other nations lead to bondage," Zechariah explained. "Joseph started out as Pharaoh's trusted advisor in Egypt, but later generations ended up as slaves. And wasn't it Ahaz's so-called alliance with Assyria that led to our present slavery?

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Vietnam del Sur se hundiría de un día para otro», advirtió John F. Kennedy a su auditorio en Texas, la mañana del 22 de noviembre de 1963. Y con Vietnam del Sur se desplomarían también las alianzas que Estados Unidos mantenía

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Alliances are based upon mutual need, not love

People are not naturally either friends or enemies: friendship and enmity arise from circumstances.

Ixion's not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

In 1804, through intelligence reports obtained by Salcedo, Charles IV, the king of Spain learned that the US government planned to acquire parts of Texas.113 Spanish spies in New Orleans reported that US agents proposed to gain permission to enter Texas under the pretense of capturing runaway slaves. Their actual plan was to convince Caddo and Comanche groups to form military alliances and attack Spanish settlements.

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.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

The Trump method of bluster, ambiguity, threat, and parry created a sense of ongoing crisis. It alienated critics, strained overseas alliances, and exhausted the patience of the electorate. Populism identified real problems and acted as a check on unaccountable elites, but it was also susceptible to demagoguery, scapegoating, and conspiracy theories.

the Union of these States—Monarchs form alliances—Republics form leagues—but here, behold a band of brothers.

When and where there is repression, what a woman does when she gets dressed in the morning may be considered political. Wearing or not wearing a veil, disobeying laws that prohibit transgender dressing, or wearing a large Afro in an institution that seeks to diminish the formation of racial alliances are all actions that can serve as challenges to domination

So it shouldn't come as a complete surprise that the decision-making game becomes that much more bruising and politically charged the higher up you go. It's critical, then, for you to become more effective at building and sustaining alliances and for you to become expert in corporate diplomacy.