Quotes About Alliance

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Yub, Yub, Commander. -Janson

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

In union, there is strength.

My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.

United we stand, divided we fall.

their loyalty to each other deepened by their ever-increasing disloyalty towards everyone else.

Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and our weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place? Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone to believe in--but how can we believe in the beloved now that they believe in us?

In his book The Four Loves, Lewis describes the pleasure of working with one's colleagues side by side. In fact, he builds his whole theory of friendship upon this very idea: "You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring in his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

The intelligent man should see to it that his friends are immortal, his enemies mortal.

Nema Srbija tu sre?u da susedi ratuju na njenoj strani.

The basic lesson of 1805–7 was that not only must the three eastern monarchies unite but the Russian army must already be positioned in central Europe when military operations began.

The Great War (I) had taught everyone an important lesson: survival in the face of a common enemy depended on working together. That meant resolving differences peacefully...

This is what Mexican cops appreciate that American cops don't. We are partners, mi hermano Arturo, in the same enterprise. Comrades in the War on Drugs. We could not exist without each other.

Zachary's partner, a younger man with a moustache named Freedly— Well, no. The man was named Freedly. Zachary's partner, a younger man named Freedly with a moustache— Zachary's partner, a moustached younger man named Freedly— Freedly said, "Have you got the ring on you?

The Spartan attitude reflected an important fact about the condition of the Greek world from 479 to 461: Its stability was apparent only and not real. The alliance between Sparta and Athens was not an alliance of states but of factions. The faction of Cimon and the faction that would be headed by King Archidamus were prepared to accept limits to the hegemonal claims of their states, but in each state there were significant elements of the population who were not.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Conrad gave me this look, the kind of look I bet soldiers give each other when they're teaming up against somebody else. It was like we were in it together.

Women politicians have definitely been known to fuck over other women. Democratic Louisiana

Even now certain of its formations were being moved off to the west, where the French and British, much to our surprise, had looked idly on as their Polish ally was being annihilated.

It instructed Germany's ambassador in Mexico to offer Mexican president Venustiano Carranza an alliance, to take effect if the new submarine campaign drew America into the war. "Make war together," Zimmermann proposed. "Make peace together." In return, Germany would take measures to help Mexico seize previously held lands—"lost territory"—in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.