Alliances quotes
106 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved."
"A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity."
"How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance."
"Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices."
"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that."
"There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over."
"Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief."
"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."
"It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
"Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against."
"The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars."
"Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation."
"At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war."
"To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece."
"Our alliances and partnerships are not directed against any nation."
"Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!"
"The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today."
"Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance."
"When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure."
