"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."

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"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."

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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."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Our nation must come together to unite."

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."

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"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation."

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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

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"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."

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"Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity."

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