Alliances

(414 votes)   Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(370 votes)   Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(366 votes)   I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(294 votes)   An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American Journalist

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(285 votes)   Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(283 votes)   We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry Kissinger
1923-, American Republican Politician, Secretary of State

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(269 votes)   All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

John Hay
1838-1905, American Author, Statesman

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