Nations

(200 votes)   Without a country, I am not a man.

Nawaf Al-Nasir Al-Sabah

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(173 votes)   We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(172 votes)   A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

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(167 votes)   The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(166 votes)   The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(151 votes)   I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(141 votes)   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
1917-, Irish Historian, Critic, and Statesman

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(140 votes)   This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

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(136 votes)   The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Dag Hammarskjold
1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.

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(129 votes)   I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

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(112 votes)   The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

Hubert H. Humphrey
1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President

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(93 votes)   I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(90 votes)   The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Douglas William Jerrold
1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright

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(81 votes)   The maxim of the British people is ''Business as usual.''

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(79 votes)   Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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