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

“It was evident that, both on account of the feudal system and the aristocratic government, a private man was not worth so much in Canada as in the United States; and, if your wealth in any measure consists in manliness, in originality and independence, you had better stay here. How could a peaceable, freethinking man live neighbor to the Forty-ninth Regiment? A New-Englander would naturally be a bad citizen, probably a rebel, there,—certainly if he were already a rebel at home.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.”
—Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914)

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