99 Peace Treaties Quotes
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Famous Peace Treaties Quotes
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. — Charles De Gaulle
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement. — Winfield Scott
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. — Herbert Hoover
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years. — Ferdinand Foch
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. — Otto von Bismarck
War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished. — Julius Caesar
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. — Aslan Maskhadov
It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. — Aristotle
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. — Otto von Bismarck
A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. — Frank Chodorov
The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction. — Lester B. Pearson
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat. — Sophocles
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. — Henry A. Kissinger
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. — Agatha Christie
Short Peace Treaties Quotes
- Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. — Kim Il-sung
- Peace is more precious than a piece of land. — Anwar Sadat
- The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war. — Menachem Begin
- Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms. — William Penn
- You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. — Shimon Peres
- No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats. — Menachem Begin
- Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. — Gerry Adams
- Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever. — Menachem Begin
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty. — Hans Frank
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. — Plato
Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace. — Bashar al-Assad
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting. — Karl Marlantes
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. — Frank B. Kellogg
The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy. — Clement Attlee
It is the most painful thing to see how young children become collateral damage of wars, but when peace treaties are signed landmines do not respect any of these accords. And as long as these silent killers linger after wars, children will never know peace — Danny Glover
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war — Plato
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Treaties Quotes
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. — Sitting Bull
In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so. — Louis XIV
Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter. — Andrew Card
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong. — Ted Kulongoski
You don't need a treaty to have free trade. — Murray Rothbard
"Every national border in Europe," El Eswad added ironically, "marks the place where two gangs of bandits got too exhausted to kill each other anymore and signed a treaty. Patriotism is the delusion that one of these gangs of bandits is better than all the others." — Robert Anton Wilson
I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty. — Jean-Claude Juncker
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. — Gustav Stresemann
You can’t magic a new security agreement into existence. It needs to be backed with everything from treaties to funding to general strategy. Europe needs a new security architecture. That will not be produced by NATO bureaucrats worried mainly about their next paycheck. — Philip Pilkington
Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog. — Stephen Harper
Peace Between Countries Quotes
Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. — Nursultan Nazarbayev
Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. — Yitzhak Rabin
Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility. — Napoleon Bonaparte
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. — Omar Bongo
Despite whatever agreement there may be between some of us, let us never forget that we are all working whole-heartedly and humbly for the same goal-a country of peace, abundance and prosperity-for all of our people of all races, of all groups-whoever they may be, wherever they may live. — Chester Bowles
I am convinced that a multi-faceted dialogue between Russia and Egypt will continue to deepen and expand for the benefit of the peoples of our countries, for the sake of peace and stability in the Middle East and North Africa. — Vladimir Putin
We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura. — Menachem Begin
Japan should get more involved in mediating disputes between countries and seek to play the role of a peace broker. To make this possible, we must train people so they have a solid understanding of international politics and great negotiation skills. — Sadako Ogata
Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening — Arundhati Roy
People Writing About Peace Treaties
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Menachem Begin |
39 | 610 |
 Otto von Bismarck |
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 Charles De Gaulle |
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 Winfield Scott |
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 Herbert Hoover |
222 | 1650 |
 Ferdinand Foch |
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More Peace Treaties Quotes
The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it. — Hassan II of Morocco
Only in an Orwellian [Barack] Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as he's peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You don't reward terrorism. You kill it! — Sarah Palin
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
World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives. — Daisaku Ikeda
The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to. — Alan Cranston
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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. — Arthur Henderson
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out. — Richard Cobden
The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue. — Vladimir Putin
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. — James Q. Wilson
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses. — Robert Ardrey
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? — Henry Cabot Lodge
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations. — Arthur Henderson
On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. — Jimmy Carter
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%. — Menachem Begin
But 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. — Hjalmar Schacht
We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought enough about the difference between the large official events of political and military history and their overflow both into recognized effects and into the lives of unofficial people who suffer them. — Wendell Berry
There are already people en route to join this peaceful, prayerful, nonviolent exercise of our human, treaty, constitutional and civil rights, which are at stake, which are constantly being encroached upon by what seems to be [Donald] Trump tyranny. — Chase Iron Eyes
If we act together along these lines, we will create conditions, the conditions for trust that Shinzō Abe speaks about, so as to take another step and conclude a peace treaty on certain terms. However, first, it is essential to cover this part of the way and then agree on the terms for signing a peace treaty. Both are challenging tasks but they are feasible. — Vladimir Putin
This is the large range of issues we have to discuss [with Shinzō Abe] and make a decision on each one of them. Look, after the resumption of the negotiating process in 2000, we did not refuse to consistently work toward signing this peace treaty. — Vladimir Putin
Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on. — Vladimir Putin
Everything that we [with Shindzo Abe] are talking about has come to us as a result of the events of 70 years ago. In some way or other, during these 70 years we have been involved in some kind of dialogue on the issue, and that includes the conclusion of a peace treaty. — Vladimir Putin
At the request of my Japanese colleagues, in 2000 we revisited the possibility of signing a peace treaty based on the 1956 agreement. — Vladimir Putin
We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not allow us to develop the full range of our relations. Therefore, we will naturally strive to sign this treaty. — Vladimir Putin
We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to find a solution to this problem together with our Japanese friends. — Vladimir Putin
I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead of being solely oil-based. This diversification had brought about modernization. I realized that if you land the price of oil, countries will diversify their economies and as a result, modernize. — Shai Agassi
You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty. — Tupac Shakur
We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms. — Yitzhak Rabin
Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. — Tom Segev
In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace. — Umberto Eco
To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance. — Thomas Berry
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