“It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.” ImportantWarNationsPeacePracticePolicyDeterminationInstrumentsSentimentsAggressionConsentNegotiationTreatiesRefrainFourteenCondemningRecourse Author:Calvin Coolidge
“The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.” WorldMatterStatesPeaceUnitedUnited StatesSecurityEmptyFidelityTreatiesPillars Author:Dean Rusk
“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.” FacesSpiritualFormPoliticalOrderNationsPeaceProcessUnderstandingReligiousConsciousnessIssuesEndureConversionDimensionsNegotiationRebirthTreatiesMagnitude Author:Thomas Berry
“In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.” IfsWarPeaceTreaties Book:The Island of the Day Before Source: The Island of the Day Before
“Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.” MenHeartMadePeaceTablesPresidentialCouncilTreatiesSecurity CouncilPeace Treaties Author:Herbert Hoover
“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.” YearsLongReasonAgeTimePassionPeaceCasesPoetAgingFiftyFourthTreatiesPeace TreatiesFourth Year Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg