The United Nations is no stronger than the collective will of the nations that support it. Of itself it can do nothing. It is a machinery through which the nations can co-operate.
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The United Nations is no stronger than the collective will of the nations that support it. Of itself it can do nothing.
It is a machinery through which the nations can co-operate.
~ Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary-General
Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization, 30 June 1946
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