Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Bunche, Ralph

Best Quotes about Nations

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]

Hope, Bob

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Bolt, Robert

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 only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Ruskin, John

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

10.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

De Delloy

15.

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

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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

Buechner, Professor William

17.

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

Custine, Marquis De

18.

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

Capone, Al

19.

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Cuellar, Javier Perez De

20.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

21.

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

Swayze, John

22.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

23.

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

24.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

32.

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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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

34.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

37.

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

Acheson, Dean

38.

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.

40.

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

Chou En Lai

41.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Carter, Jimmy

42.

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

43.

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

Weil, Simone

44.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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.

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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