Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.
The United Nations has no business in our elections.
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.
I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake.
A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
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 makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
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.
What keeps me awake at night is the issue of relevance of the United Nations.
The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.
Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.
God does not rule in nations, but He is mindful of them. He can and does place people in positions of influence who want what is best for the people and who trust in the Lord.
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.
The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
