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.

    The Federated Republic of Europe—the United States of Europe—that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.
    Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “Might.”
    Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)