Quotes About Treaty

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

The treaty did not promote the economic rehabilitation of Europe, but created new frontiers that were charged with economic as well as political significance. These entailed trade barriers, confiscations of private property, prohibitions and passport controls.

treaty were lenient compared with those imposed by Germany in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918, whereby Russia had been denuded of a third of its population, deprived of half its industrial capacity and nine-tenths of its coal-mines, and subjected to a massive indemnity.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

El artículo 231 del tratado decía: «Los gobiernos aliados y asociados afirman, y Alemania acepta, que Alemania y sus aliados son responsables de haber causado todas las pérdidas y los daños a los que se han visto sujetos los gobiernos aliados y asociados, así como sus ciudadanos, como consecuencia de la guerra que les fue impuesta por la agresión de Alemania y sus aliados».

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.

Any nation which claims that this [North Atlantic] treaty is directed against it should be reminded of the Biblical admonition that 'The guilty flee when no man pursueth.

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who removed us from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty framework for nuclear disarmament, and then Barack Obama, who created a trillion-dollar budget for us to spend on a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery.

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

I don't believe that peace without at least some attempt at mutual understanding can endure. Whatever official document may be signed by our leaders in the future will be undermined on the ground, on your hill and mine. It will be a cold treaty, an unloved peace that will wither and die, or more likely be murdered. If nothing else, the intimacy of our geography makes complete physical separation impossible. And so, to live, we must learn to live together.

The agreement an Indian makes to a United States treaty, is like the agreement a buffalo makes with his hunter when pierced with arrows. All he can do is lie down and give in.

There is something different between defence deal and deal in defence.

there would have been no warfare. One of the great Indian warriors of history was Red Cloud of the Oglala Dakota Sioux tribe, who had a reputation for daring and ferocity. In June of 1866, Sherman called Red Cloud and several other Lakota Sioux leaders to Fort Laramie to discuss a new treaty to permit a new road to be built through Sioux territory. Even before an agreement had been reached, however, a battalion

Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given. The price is paid.' "A

There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Paul Ryan whipped the votes to get fast track Trade Promotion Authority to sell our jobs to foreign countries. He absolutely worked on that. Paul Ryan owns it. He can't say he doesn't agree with it, because when he did that, that contract was already written. It was already set up - that treaty was already set up.

But, because of the unwise provisions of the Treaty of Rome regarding freedom of movement, it has led to the mass emigration of the professional classes, and to the loss of the educated young from countries that stand desperately in need of them. The

After the French and Indian War, the British vacillated about whether to swap all of Canada for the island of Guadeloupe; in the event the French toasted their own diplomatic cunning in retaining the sugar island.

For Hamilton, the Jay Treaty victory represented the culmination of his work with Washington. By settling all outstanding issues left over from the Revolution, the treaty removed the last impediments to improved relations with England and promised sustained prosperity.

Hamilton and Madison were again pitted in a fundamental contest over whether the executive or legislative branch would run American foreign policy. Hamilton was relieved when Washington denied Congress the treaty instructions.

Would a treaty ratified by Congress trump state law? Could the judiciary override the legislature? And would America function as a true country or a loose federation of states? Hamilton left no doubt that states should bow to a central government: "It must be conceded that the legislature of one state cannot repeal the law of the United States.