United Nations Truce

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

    “The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.”
    —Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)

    “Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Our whole life is startingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)