Quotes about nations

"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."

Weil, Simone on nations   

"France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper."

Wilder, Billy on nations   

"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper."

Wilder, Billy on nations   

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."

Acheson, Dean on nations   

"The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."

Bunche, Ralph on nations   

"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."

Cuellar, Javier Perez De on nations   

"The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good."

Dulles, John Foster on nations   

"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."

Hammarskjold, Dag on nations   

"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."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on nations   

"We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination."

Kennedy, John F. on nations   

"This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot on nations
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"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."

O'Brien, Conor Cruise on nations   

"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."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on nations   

"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."

Truman, Harry S on nations   

"Whitaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss was a member of his communist party cell. Alger Hiss was the president of the carnegie endowment for world peace which works closely with the UN advocating for the creation of a world government. They published a book in 1940 titled 'The New World Order' which outlines their plan for its creation after World War II. There's still people trying to create this supposed world order and there appears to be people involved from all sides of the paradigm. "

Dye, James on nations   

"This is my song, O God of all the nations/A song of peace for lands afar and mine./This is my home, the country where my heart is,/here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;/but other hearts in other lands are beating with hope and dreams as true and high as mine. "

Stone, Lloyd on nations