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Famous quotes containing the words united, nations and/or convention:

“When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing to the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.