Top 159 Treaties Quotes & Sayings

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

We need to review treaties to make them reflect our national interest.

The commitment to international agreements is embodied, it's found in the U.S. Constitution. Article Six of the U.S. Constitution provides that treaties of the United States are part of the supreme law of the land along with the constitution itself and laws passed by Congress. Well, the US government certainly has not been acting in recent years as if treaties were part of the supreme law of the land.

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

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

We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.

The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.

Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the '30s and '40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not? There is a feeling, and I think it's correct, that the European Union, the eurozone, and the euro, is not reformable, as a result of the Lisbon treaties and the other treaties that have created the euro. Europe has to be taken apart in order to be put together not on a right-wing, neoliberal basis, but on a more social basis.

Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

Treaties exist so that they will be adhered to. It only serves to strengthen euroskepticism when we constantly make promises and reach agreements that we do not adhere to.

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

The EU treaties clearly promote an alliance of national states that, as far as possible, maintain their own responsibilities. There is no mention of a centralized state of Europe in the treaties. The EU Commission's politicking, however, is proof of a certain allergy against this principle of national states and national responsibilities.

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

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

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

We live in a dangerous world, and Russia has not complied with existing treaties.

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.

Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

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.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

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

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

After the Manchu government had carried on wars with foreign nations and had been defeated, China was forced to sign many unequal treaties. Foreign nations are still using these treaties to bind China, and as a result, China fails at whatever she attempts.

The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.

Mexico has 44 treaties with other countries that make it very advantageous to do international shipping from Mexico rather than from the United States. Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the United States does.

Treaties negotiated with foreign powers create binding obligations on future generations that cannot be repealed in the way that domestic law can. As a consequence, the most rigorous process should be in place to scrutinise such treaties before they ever come to be ratified.

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

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

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

Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.

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

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Once the monetary sovereignty is retaken, one can make a last attempt to renegotiate all of the treaties: Maastricht, Schengen, Dublin, and Lisbon.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

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

The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them.

I will seek to change some of the European treaties and regulations which penalise Italian people.

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

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

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

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

India is known to be a peace-loving country, we try to keep our peace treaties intact with other countries.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed.

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

Believe it or not, Mexico has better treaties with the rest of the world than the Unites States does.

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

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

Italians cannot vote on international treaties.

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

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

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

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

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars against Europeans for control of that land. And that history of dispossession, you know, if you look at the treaties, it's very interesting. Everyone thinks that Indians were ripped off in their treaties. If you look at the first round of treaties from about 1800 to the Civil War, tribes secured over 150 million acres. I think it may have been 144 million acres in those treaties. That's a large amount of real estate.

The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.

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

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