United Netherlands

Famous quotes containing the words united and/or netherlands:

“It is a united will, not mere walls, which makes a fort.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)