Quotes About Alliance

Boy,' he said. 'Listen to me, and learn the first lesson of man, the political animal. When you wage war, you wage it for ever. When war is over, it has never existed. There is a truce, and there will shortly be a peace between England and Scotland. Crawford of Lymond is the Queen's friend, and my friend, and your friend.

Then,' Richard said, 'I think we accept your scheme, with one important change in it. You, too, must be watched and followed.' 'And slept with?' Lymond said.

The alternative is English force: reprisals and raids and counter-raids and broken promises, as you say. Of course you must try to secure this alliance. You might have achieved it in the last reign but for Henry. It was he who fostered the cult of the honest emotion, and you're still paying for the mistake.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

Union gives strength.

Enemies! People these days don't have enemies ! Not English people!

But we shouldn't be surprised if a one-night stand should yield a lifelong intimate friendship, for what is a dalliance but an alliance that begins with a big D?!

Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.

We're a team, you and I

To Aristotle, who said the antidote to fifty enemies was one friend.

J.B. Bury once followed Pascal in suggesting that the cause of the foundation of the Roman Empire was the length of Cleopatra's nose: had her features not been perfectly proportioned, Mark Antony would not have been entranced; had he not been entranced he would not have allied himself with Egypt against Octavian; had he not made that alliance, the battle of Actium would not have been fought—and so on.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

To borrow a very popular phrase, I'm a Paul Heyman guy.

For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.

Some people just like to do their own thing. I ain't sayin' it's wrong, but me, I wanna hustle with another hustler. I think two impactful hustlers, or three, or four, is a stronger force.

No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.

War makes strange bedfellows.

Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.

Our shared historical experiences led myself and Mitterrand to the decision that we must do everything to prevent further wars.

In the original 'Guild Wars,' one of the big conflicts was the humans versus the charr. The humans and charr are both playable races in 'Guild Wars 2,' and they are on the same side, more or less. They don't hate each other.