Treaties Quotes

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I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.

It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.

You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty.

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement... contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.

In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.