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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.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
What treaties that the whites have kept, that the red man broken?
Not one.
What treaties that the white man gave to us they kept?
Not one. — Sitting Bull
Not one.
What treaties that the white man gave to us they kept?
Not one. — Sitting Bull
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He was always just mad enough to take treaties seriously. Honor, you know. I don't have any.
— Orson Scott Card
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
— Henry David Thoreau
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
— Charles De Gaulle
Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.
— Nachman Of Breslov
I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it.
— Caroline Flint
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
— Otto Von Bismarck
Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
— Nigel Farage
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.
— Richard M. Nixon
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
— Richard Cobden
Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.
— Alexis Tsipras
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.
— Douglas Hurd
My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.
— Jeremy Thomas
I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
No treaty or international agreement can contravene the Constitution.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.
— Sherman Alexie
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
— Buffalo Bill
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
— Paul Valery
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.
— Stanley Hoffmann
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
— Nelson A. Miles
My parents want to do things differently. Dad's big on treaties.'
'And your mother?' Isabeau inquired.
'She's big on making grown men cry. — Alyxandra Harvey
'And your mother?' Isabeau inquired.
'She's big on making grown men cry. — Alyxandra Harvey
The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
— Clement Attlee
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks
— Paul Samuelson
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.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
— Charles De Gaulle
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
— Linus Pauling
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
— Umberto Eco