agreement quotes

We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 28:15.

Medical men all over the world having merely entered into a tacit agreement to call all sorts of maladies people are liable to, in cold weather, by one name; so that one sort of treatment may serve for all, and their practice thereby be greatly simplified.

-Jane Baillie ne  e Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
  Letter to  John Welsh, 4 Mar.

This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper that bears his name upon it as well as mine: 'We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two people never to go to war with one another again.'

- (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain
  Speech on the signing of the Munich  Agreement, Heston airport, 30 Sep.

Whenever you accept our views, we shall be in full agreement with you.

- Moshe Dayan
Remark to US envoy Cyrus Vance during the  Arab^Israeli negotiations, quoted in the Observer,14  Aug1977.

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. Theyare to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

- the Great Frederick II
Attributed.

If some of my former colleagues are to be believed, I must be the first minister in history to have resigned because he was in full agreement with government policy.

- Baron Howe
  Personal statement on his resignation, House of Commons,13 Nov.

For the first time, we have been able to reach an Kennedy agreement which can limit the dangers of this age.

-John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
  On the ratificationof a treaty to limit nuclear testing,7 Oct.

Agreement reached by the negotiators†usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.

- George P(ratt) Shultz
  On negotiating the release of Russian political prisoners. Turmoil andTriumph.

In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

- Harry S Truman
  On the10th anniversary of the United Nations, 24 Jun.