“More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.” -Kofi Annan

“The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world” -Ralph Bunche

“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.” -Dag Hammarskjold

“Peace is respect for the rights of your neighbors.” -Benito Juarez