Famous quotes containing the words united nations, united, nations and/or convention:
“Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
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