#treaty

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#chaos #cuba #finally #free #go

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. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#asia #commercial #countries #england #fifty

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. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#change #desire #england #first #make

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

— Townsend Harris

#end #made #treaty #war #would

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#case #circumstances #england #first #gradually

The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#foreign #foreign countries #japan #kind #make

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. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#been #come #countries #foreign #foreign countries

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! ↗

— Omar Torrijos Herrera

#dead #find #knees #negotiations #never

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#native-american #ojibwe #prophesy #treaty #money

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#desirable #law #most #rights #sea