United Nations Truce

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

    “Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.”
    —Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)

    “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)

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