Exercising Treaty Rights

Famous quotes containing the words exercising, treaty and/or rights:

“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
—French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed August 1789, published September 1791)