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Quotes About Allies

Walk firmly and with joy, without being afraid of stumbling. All your movements are being watched by your allies that will help you when necessary.
~ Paulo Coelho
Stalin did not trust Churchill, because he did not trust anyone (except, for two years, Adolf Hitler). Yet Churchill could not discover Stalin's true views about him because after June 1941 Britain's intelligence services were ordered not to spy on Britain's new Soviet ally, a mistaken policy that was certainly not reciprocated.
~ Andrew Roberts
Russia is a direct threat to our NATO allies in the Baltics and in Poland as well as a threat to peace and stability in the entire western world.
~ Dan Lipinski
Whereas Canada and our allies see the rule of law, freedom of speech, and fair elections as the guardrails to a more secure world, Beijing sees them as a threat to the rule of the Communist Party.
~ Erin O'Toole
It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.
~ George Allen
One 'I am woman/Hear me roar' speech may play well with her allies in the media, but women need to look beyond her rhetoric and the snazzy ads. If they do, they'll quickly realize that the Hillary Clinton who bashed women and called them bimbos in the 1990s is the real Hillary Clinton running for the White House in 2016.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
The United States and our allies will not prevent countries from doing business with Chinese companies like Huawei on the basis of security concerns alone, though there are a number of them. We must provide an alternative service or product that is better, more secure and less costly. We need to respond by out-innovating our opponent.
~ Will Hurd
The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
~ Noam Chomsky
The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.
~ Kevin McCarthy
My priorities? Assisting our allies, the Kurds, in their fight against ISIS.
~ Trent Franks
When male allies make space for women, they're not diminishing their own power. Rather, they're enhancing everyone's.
~ Meena Harris
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers.
~ Gene Luen Yang
En los años siguientes, los dirigentes estadounidenses y británicos negarían su responsabilidad en el multitudinario levantamiento iraquí que alentaron. En el norte de Iraq, decenas de miles de kurdos ya se habían sublevado contra sus opresores y —olvidando las traiciones de los estadounidenses— esperaban con ansia la ayuda de los aliados.
~ Robert Fisk
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
~ Robert Greene
As we've seen, such jerks don't need to hold prestigious positions—they just need to be adept at recruiting allies to help them backstab, intimidate, and spread vicious lies about anybody who stands in their way.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Chris was vaguely troubled by the revelation that one of America's closest allies was being deceived by the U.S. Government, but he let the thought slip away and accepted an invitation to go to lunch with some of the other TRW employees assigned to Rhyolite. The
~ Robert Lindsey
The idea that the Allies were up against a lunatic was even more terrifying than the prospect of battling a rational, though supremely evil, foe. At least you could try to outsmart a rational man; you could guess his next move and try to counteract it. A madman, on the other hand, couldn't be relied upon to act in even his own best interest. "As
~ Robert Masello
we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.
~ Robin McKinley
the British Government became determined that when victory came they should be in a position to impose terms, not only on the defeated enemy, but also on their victorious allies.
~ Robin Neillands
Alexander the Great would have found it difficult to succeed in forcing a breach in the German line in 1914-1915, and the defeats Haig's armies suffered in 1916 and 1917 - those notorious disasters on the Somme and at Passchendaele - should not obscure the fact that it was Haig who commanded the British armies that spearheaded the Allied victory in 1918 and showed the other armies how this war should be fought; even General Foch admitted that.
~ Robin Neillands
The French, and especially the French generals, would not accept the British as equal partners in the war. The fact that without the help of Britain and her Empire they would already have lost the war and what remained of their national territory did not alter their belief in their own military superiority, or lead them into any feelings of gratitude towards their Anglo-Saxon allies.
~ Robin Neillands
The 72nd Division, which had opened the battle with 12,000 men, had lost nearly 10,000 men in three days; this is as many as all the Allied armies, navies and air forces lost on D-Day 1944 - and the French losses came from a single division.
~ Robin Neillands
A veces nuestros amigos se convierten en nuestros enemigos, y a veces nuestros enemigos se convierten en nuestros amigos.
~ Lee Child