Quotes About Alliance

Patrimonialism: supporters within the state benefit directly from their alliance with the ruler (corruption)

Had Britain not declared war on Germany in 1914, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and India would not have followed the Mother Country in. Nor would Britain's ally Japan. Nor would Italy, which London lured in with secret bribes of territory from the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. Nor would America have gone to war had Britain stayed out. Germany would have been victorious, perhaps in months. There would have been no Lenin, no Stalin, no Versailles, no Hitler, no Holocaust.

Yes, AND…" reinforces emotions. When you use "Yes, AND…" you inevitably end up sending the right emotional signals to the person you're conversing with. Whatever they are conveying, you are agreeing with. You become an ally. You become somebody that they can trust.

To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

Friendship makes thieves of us all

Do you want to be in our mob?" Elena asks him. "When did we get a mob?" he says. "We don't have one yet. I'm working on it." Michael turns to me. "It's got something to do with books." "In that case," says Michael, "I'm in.

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

with rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others—or, in a word, partnership.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

Is this what you two cooked up? Good cop, insane cop?

when parents have a strong alliance, children show fewer signs of stress, marital relationships are stronger, and children have better relationships with their peers.

Cale, I am the Second of Mask. We are more than comrades, more than friends. I am at your shoulder through whatever comes. Now … be the First.

It was the French fear that, given that option, the U.S. would "chicken out," and sacrifice Europe to save its own skin, that led the French to develop their own independent nuclear capacity.

It seemed to him she understood but was not willing to concede they might be on the same side against anyone or anything.

If an adult does not protest when a child is being attacked with destructive criticism, she is in an unspoken alliance with the critic. The child is forced to assume contempt is normal and acceptable. The witnessing adult has forsaken her/his tribal responsibility to protect the child from parents who perpetrate child abuse.

In their westward march across present-day Nebraska and the Dakotas during the early nineteenth century, the Lakotas gradually allied themselves with the Cheyennes and the Arapahos, who had been pushed onto the northern plains in advance of the Lakotas and had already forged an enduring bond, albeit an odd coupling. Their languages were mutually unintelligible, an impediment they overcame with a sophisticated sign language, and their characters could not have been more dissimilar.

Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

The EU is the continuation of Germany by other means

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).