Best United Nations Wisdom
305 United Nations quotes by 194 unique authors
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You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
— Harry S. Truman
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We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort.…
— Harry S. Truman
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All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
— Harry S. Truman
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If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.
— Harry S. Truman
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With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for…
— Harry S. Truman
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We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually…
— John T. Flynn
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
— Richard Holbrooke
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I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.
— Kojo Annan
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My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
— Kojo Annan
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I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
— Kojo Annan
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The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting…
— John F. Kennedy
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Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of…
— Larry Elder
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President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with…
— Tina Fey
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The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the…
— Kofi Annan
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We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary…
— Walter Cronkite
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Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the…
— Ishmael Beah
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I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
— Michael Scott
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If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let…
— Paul Robeson
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One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran…
— Newt Gingrich
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who…
— Norman Cousins
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If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to…
— William Hague
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
— Harri Holkeri
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The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
— David Icke
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