Motivational Quotes

Nations

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

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Best Quotes about Nations

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Bolt, Robert

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Wilder, Billy

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Disraeli, Benjamin

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Warner, Charles Dudley

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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

11.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

12.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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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

14.

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

Buechner, Professor William

15.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

Bunche, Ralph

16.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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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

18.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Truman, Harry S

19.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

20.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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.

25.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

27.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

28.

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

Burke, Edmund

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Capone, Al

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

33.

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

34.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

35.

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

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

Weil, Simone

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Twain, Mark

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.

Swayze, John

40.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.

Edinborough, Arnold

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Briand, Aristide

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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

Milton, John

46.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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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

49.

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

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

Chou En Lai