United Nations Truce

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

    “Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damn business.”
    —Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)

    “In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one’s self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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