United Nations Flag

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

    “Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)

    “Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
    Eagle with crest of red and gold,
    These men were born to drill and die.
    Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
    Make plain to them the excellence of killing
    And a field where a thousand corpses lie.”
    —Stephen Crane (1871–1900)