Mutual Defense Quotes

“It entered into a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with North Korea in 1961, containing a clause on mutual defense against outside attack that is still in force at this writing. But that was more in the nature of the tributary relationship familiar from Chinese history: Beijing offered protection; North Korean reciprocity was irrelevant to the relationship. The Soviet alliance frayed from the very outset largely because Mao would not accept even the hint of subordination.”
― Henry Kissinger, On China

“In this determination to live at peace among ourselves we in the Americas make it at the same time clear that we stand shoulder to shoulder in our final determination that others who, driven by war madness or land hunger, might seek to commit acts of aggression against us will find a Hemisphere wholly prepared to consult together for our mutual safety and our mutual good.

[Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, December 1936]”
― Irwin F. Gellman, Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933-1945