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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role… — Orson Scott Card
It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others.… — Dag Hammarskjold
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest… — Walter Bagehot
If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets. — Tennessee Williams
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations… — Irving Babbitt
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon… — Hannah Arendt
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. — Dean Acheson
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social… — Lord Acton
The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about… — Robert James Waller
Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great… — Richard M. Nixon
The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially… — Israel Shenker
Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and… — Gunnar Myrdal
Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us… — George W. Bush
What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the framework… — Nong ?uc Manh
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a… — Peter MacKay
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The… — Che Guevara
It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family… — Kofi Annan
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and… — Joseph Stalin
We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not… — Chaim Weizmann
President Obama has decided to have the United Nations review the law of Arizona. You have got to be kidding! We're now going to have… — Russell Pearce
If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged. — Kevin Rudd
I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in… — Scott Ritter
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family. — May Sarton
The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by… — Thomas Sowell

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