There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agree...d that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerable ...concessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favora...ble to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the worst horror of the Russian Revolution was the letting loose of one hundred million orators, for their passion for talk was... immediately responsible for all the other horrors ...Oratory prevented Russia from becoming a constitutional country. Oratory tore the Revolution from the patriots and gave it into the bloody hands of the mob. Oratory murdered the Czar, his wife, and their innocent children. Oratory almost wiped out the educated classes. Oratory held the stupid populace spellbound while the Germans invaded the country, boosted Lenine [sic] into power, and paved the way for the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. I never want to hear any more oratory as long as I live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am satisfied the present Chinese labor invasion (it is not in any proper sense immigration--women and children do not come) is p...ernicious and should be discouraged. Our experience in dealing with the weaker races--the negroes and Indians, for example--is not encouraging. We shall oppress the Chinamen, and their presence will make hoodlums and vagabonds of their oppressors. I therefore would consider with favor suitable measures to discourage the Chinese from coming to our shores. But I suspect that this bill is inconsistent with our treaty obligations.... If it violates the National faith, I must decline to sign it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 usuall...y conclude it not very long afterwards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. York: Colonel, if you send out the regiment, Cochise'll think I've tricked him. Col. Thursday: Exactly, we have tricked... him. Tricked him into returning to American soil, and I intend to see that he stays here. Capt. York: Col. Thursday, I gave my word to Cochise. No man is going to make a liar out of me, sir. Col. Thursday: Your word to a breach-cladded savage, an illiterate, uncivilized murderer and treaty breaker. There's no question of honor, sir, between an American officer and Cochise. Capt. York: There is to me, sir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No troop or squadron or regiment's gonna keep the Apaches on this reservation unless they want to stay here. Five years ago we mad...e a treaty with Cochise. He and his Cherokowas and some of the other Apache bands came on the reservation. They wanted to live here in peace and did for two years. And then Meacham, here, was sent by the Indian ring, the dirtiest, most corrupt political group in our history. And then it began--whiskey but no beef, trinkets instead of blankets, the women degraded, the children sickly, and the men turning into drunken animals. So Cochise did the only thing a decent man could do. He left. Took most of his people and crossed the Rio Bravo into Mexico.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came;... Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »