Quotes About Alliance

In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence. It contracted no alliance with the turbulent passions of anarchy; but its course was marked, on the contrary, by an attachment to whatever was lawful and orderly.

The most natural privilege of man, next to the right of acting for himself, is that of combining his exertions with those of his fellow-creatures, and of acting in common with them. I am therefore led to conclude that the right of association is almost as inalienable as the right of personal liberty. No legislator can attack it without impairing the very foundations of society.

Claire's dog and the cat Elv had rescued from the river had a strange alliance. When they thought no one was at home, they sat together on the couch by the window, peering out at the courtyard. As soon as the key turned in the door, they jumped off the couch so that no one would see their attachment. Dogs and cats had their secrets too.

Alliance - In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

friends can be useful. If nothing else, a friend is one less enemy.

If you can't make your enemies trust you, you can at least make them mistrust each other.

War is but the pricking point of politics.

Una alianza debe ser sellada cara a cara, hombre a hombre, hierro a hierro, y sangre a sangre.

You trust her?" asked Forest. "No," said Leo. "But trust is a poor foundation for an alliance.

Now go, and if I hear of more fighting, let it be of how the two of you beat someone else together.

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.

Given what we know today about Stalin's crimes against his own people, it is hard to imagine that as late as 1947, most Americans saw "Uncle Joe's" USSR as an ally. Since Germany's invasion of Russia in June 1941, the Soviet Union joined with the Allies and bore the brunt of the fighting.

Who you associate with makes a difference in how far you go in life.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army to help the Crips take over Los Angeles--and succeeded.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

war between the United States and Islam, its former ally in the anti-Communist crusade, has created a new synthesis or alliance, if you will, between Catholicism and Shi'a Islam.

Who would have thought that a human and a dragon could make such a perfect match?

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.