Alliance Quotes

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson

Motto, Nations, Commerce

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Why, Others

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Sleep, Woman

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics, Two, Cannot

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash

Marriage, Two, Birthdays

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Good, Power, Evil

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus

Powerful, Person, Safe

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
H. Rap Brown

Black, Until, Everybody

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
Tony Blair

Business, Strong, Win

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.
Stephen Harper

Government, Abortion, Referendum

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.
Eliot Spitzer

Nothing, Done, Same

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
Jon Meacham

History, War, Government

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
James Buchan

Nature, Government, Science

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'
Vladimir Putin

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.
Sydney Smith

Great, Truth, Dangerous

I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Lee Myung-bak

Future, Talk, Within

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.
Francis Parker Yockey

Love, War, Hate

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.
Ahmed Yassin

Rather, Face, Military

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Human, Soul, Show

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
Sally Kirkland

Education, High, Bring

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
Sally Kirkland

Education, Work, Light

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
Walid Jumblatt

Today, Islam, Enemy

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
Ron Kind

Leadership, Energy, House

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Jeffrey Sachs

Great, War, Defeat

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.
Lee Myung-bak

Hope, Future, Between

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
Anatoly Karpov

Act, Close, Chess

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
Ted Rall

Nothing, Trying, Country

It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.
Yoshihiko Noda

Personal, Security, Economic

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
Clive Bell

Religion, Family, Men

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Jose Maria Aznar

Against, Terrorism, Role

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