United Nations Truce

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

    “Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
    The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
    Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
    Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
    Great nations blossom above,
    A slave bows down to a slave.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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