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“It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.”

World Spirit Purpose Values Understanding Goal Behavior Models Machines Institutions Scales Regulation Conservation Treaties True Purpose Values And Goals

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.”

May Facts Law Natural Justice Cases Particular Depends Circumstances Claims International Obligation Treaties International Law Insistence Stipulations Natural Justice

Book:Addresses on International Subjects

Source: Addresses on International Subjects

“Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.”

Made War Individual Treaties Peace Treaties

Book:Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849

Source: Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849

“The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.”

States Members Treaties

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.”

Made War Ends Cases Treaties

Author:Townsend Harris

“If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.”

Ifs Writing Two Country Three Names Numbers Ready England Agents France Fifty Japan Asia Treaties

Author:Townsend Harris

“If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.”

Ifs Should Firsts Matter States Desire United United States England Trade Settling Treaties Opium

Author:Townsend Harris

“The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.”

Ifs May Made Wish President Introduction Treaties Prudent Opium

Author:Townsend Harris

“When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.”

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Author:Townsend Harris

“Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.”

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Author:John F. Kerry