11 quotes about United Nations



We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
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This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
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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.
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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.
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
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