United Nations General

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

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

    “Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,—never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”
    —Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    “No doubt, the short distance to which you can see in the woods, and the general twilight, would at length react on the inhabitants, and make them savages. The lakes also reveal the mountains, and give ample scope and range to our thought.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)