Quotes About Allies

Intelligence is fragmentary and hard to discover, so it is by joining forces and sharing information with our allies that we maximise our ability to protect ourselves.

Friends, or frenemies?

In Kaladin's eyes, there was no sin greater than the betrayal of one's allies in battle. Except, perhaps, for the betrayal of one's own men—of murdering them after they risked their lives to protect you.

She had none the less extracted from her a vow in respect to the time that if the Colonel might be depended on they would spend at Fawns; and nothing came home to her more in this connexion or inspired her with a more intimate interest than her sense of absolutely seeing her interlocutress forbear to observe that Charlotte's view of a long visit even from such allies was there to be reckoned with.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

No British Prime Minister should be treated with barely concealed disrespect by our allies.

It is reckless for a presidential candidate to publicly raise doubts about honoring treaty commitments with our allies.

I have a tremendous network of friends and colleagues at other firms.

Truth can win you many enemies, but it also rewards you with some die-hard friends

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

On May 12, 2011, Bordin published a seventy-page paper titled "A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility." It provided a raw, highly detailed account of estrangement between American and Afghan allies.

The Americans and their Canadian and European allies were in a hurry to get the Afghan army and police organized, so they could go home. The Afghan soldiers being trained could not withdraw from the challenge of the Taliban, so they were open to local truces and other improvised, even cooperative strategies with the enemy to avoid direct combat.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, as allies battling Soviet occupation forces and their Afghan communist proxies, the CIA had pumped cash stipends as high as $200,000 a month to Massoud and his Islamic guerrilla organization, along with weapons and other supplies.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

America is back' is a divisive, foolish slogan. It only baffles America's allies and emboldens our adversaries.

The mind has the ability to talk to itself, but it also has the ability to hear information that is available from other realms. Sometimes you hear a voice in your mind, and you may wonder where it came from. This voice may have come from another reality in which there are living beings very similar to the human mind. The Toltecs called these beings Allies. In Europe, Africa, and India they called them the Gods.

Works for me. For the ones we love, today we're allies. Tomorrow we resume our natural order of mortal enemies. Gentlemen, and I use that term loosely for all of us, have we an accord? (Acheron)

Hillary Clinton comes out and said, we love our allies, we think our allies are great. Well, it's awfully hard to get them to pay up when you have somebody saying we think how great they are.

At first Rumania may have been just a little neutral against the Allies, but that was because the rogues who governed her did not understand the 'brincibles' of democracy, but by the end of the war, although she was too small country to make spectacular gestures, Rumania was being very neutral against Germany.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

We end up gathering with allies—actual, perceived, or potential—as a way of feeling justified in our own accusing views of others.

The Kurds have fought, bled and died fighting alongside the U.S.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.