Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
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Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
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In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.
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Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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Alliances
Fathomless,
Persuasive,
Auspicious,
Harmonious alliances;
When your light goes off,
I will put my own on.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.
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Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
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'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
quote by George Washington
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
quote by Fred Allen
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The Man of The Hollow
With words that wed
They eat upon the simplicity
For if it can be done, it is
Like a moment cherished that was never yours
You become one of the scourge.
Emotions twist and turn
Alliances are forged
With a thought swallowed
You are the man of the hollow
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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
quote by Karl Liebknecht
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