Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.