Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Capone, Al

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

Ruskin, John

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

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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

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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

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

Custine, Marquis De

21.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

Wilder, Billy

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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

Swayze, John

29.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

30.

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

31.

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

Sellar, W. C.

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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.

33.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Weil, Simone

36.

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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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Acheson, Dean

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

Burton, Pierre

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moliere

42.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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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

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Plato

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

Twain, Mark