“All treaties between nations are valid only with the reservation clause: rebus sic stantibus. They do not pledge a State for ever.”

—  Heinrich von Treitschke

Statement (1869), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 83.

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