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ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry.n alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.