Quotes About Alliance

The outlay for defense was 4.6 percent of the GDP in 1950; by 1953 it had risen to 13.8 percent. In 1940 the federal budget devoted 16 percent to defense; in 1959, more than 50 percent. By 1955, the American alliance system circled the globe, and we were pledged to the defense of practically everybody, including a host of despots and autocrats. The

We may not be in Manchester but we will always be united

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.)

But perhaps his outstanding contribution to Australian politics was that, after a lifetime of switching sides, he put in place the basic two-party structure we have today: Labor versus anti-Labor. The anti-Labor parties have had many names, but always the same policy: to keep Labor out of office.

Better unity, than division!

Friendship only exist during happy times. There lies a betrayal line beyond those happy moments.

There is no real love in politics since you have to marry the daughter of your closest enemy to keep the peace for a while.

People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.

Well, Kaleb's voice whispered in Nikita's mind, it seems this will make strange bedfellows out of us all.

the story of how these three disparate men—cardinal telekinetic, assassin, priest—had come together

I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Aodhan was the one who answered, voice quiet but words potent. "If Raphael were to perish, the Seven divided, would we not come together should we have a chance to avenge his death?

But on this night, Bowen Adrian Knight and Kaleb Krychek had, together, laid the first brick.

In saving his life, she'd gained herself a Mercant knight who would always, always be in her corner.

He plunges into the middle of them and it is a frightening thing. He must be fierce and wicked and brave all at the same time. I'm glad he's on our side.

Or were we all only part of each other's lives for a moment, putting down our swords long enough to win a war against a common enemy? Would we be friends if we'd met any other way?

Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.

Perfidious Albion.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

To make peace with an enemy, one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes your partner.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

La izquierda y la derecha unidas jamás serán vencidas.