Motivational Quotes

Nations

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Nations

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Capone, Al

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Sigourney, Lydia

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Chou En Lai

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.

Herzen, Alexander

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Twain, Mark

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Forster, Edward M.

10.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Huxley, Aldous

11.

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Burton, Pierre

12.

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.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

13.

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.

Dulles, John Foster

14.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

15.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

17.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Hugo, Victor

19.

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

Kubrick, Stanley

20.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]

Churchill, Winston

21.

If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.

Potter, Henry Codman

22.

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.

Hammarskjold, Dag

23.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]

Marx, Karl

25.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

Sellar, W. C.

26.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Burke, Edmund

27.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

28.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Hochhuth, Rolf

30.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

31.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

32.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Ruskin, John

33.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Vico, Giambattista

36.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Bolt, Robert

37.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

38.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

39.

We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Kennedy, John F.

40.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

41.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Ruskin, John

42.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Weil, Simone

43.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

44.

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Hubbard, Elbert

46.

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.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

47.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Custine, Marquis De

48.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Bradbury, Malcolm

49.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

50.

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.