Quotes About Alliance

In any case, the two countries had stayed alive over the centuries mainly by warring on each other. There had been the Olive War, the Tuna Fish Discrepancy, which almost bankrupted both nations, the Roman Rift, which did send them both into insolvency, only to be followed by the Discord of the Emeralds, in which they both got rich again, chiefly by banding together for a brief period and robbing everybody within sailing distance.

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At this meeting Ribbentrop also assured Ciano that Munich had revealed the strength of the isolationists in the U.S.A. "so that there is nothing to fear from America."10 †

A partnership is the paramount confederation for creating and nurturing innovation.

may have believed that a romantic marriage was strengthened by similitude. But he knew that a durable political marriage relied on disparate groups uniting.

By the end of his first year in office, Jackson was permanently estranged from Calhoun and had settled on Van Buren as his successor

Remember, there is no 'I' in 'team.'

Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked. No, but it's very sweet of you. Eragon to Saphira

A friend in power is a friend lost.

I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature must never be anything else but an alliance... When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature, of which we are inescapably a part.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed.

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.

For centuries, the Middle Kingdom had assured its security by playing off distant barbarians against immediate neighbors. Deeply worried about Soviet expansionism, Mao adopted the same strategy in his opening to the United States.

At least Tsar Alexander III understood that the game now being played was for the highest stakes. When Giers asked him, '...what would we gain by helping the french destroy Germany?' he replied: 'what we would gain would be that Germany, as such, would disappear. It would break up into a number of small, weak states, the way it used to be'.

Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

The means are... the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people," the abbe was saying. "It is only necessary for one powerful nation like Russia—barbaric as she is said to be—to place herself disinterestedly at the head of an alliance having for its object the maintenance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!

Things always go quicker with two working at it.

The literary "fellow travelers" of the Revolution.

Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the tow of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.

Those who are in federation with them" specifically included not only all the clans of the Aws and the Khazraj, whether or not they had formally accepted islam at that point, but also the Jewish tribes, named clan by clan. As monotheists, "the Jews are one community with the believers," the document declared, again using the word umma. "Each must help the other against anyone who attacks the people of this document. They must seek mutual advice and consultation.