Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Nations

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

21.

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.

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

Plato

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

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Wilder, Billy

29.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Churchill, Winston

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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Swayze, John

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

Moliere

42.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

43.

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

De Delloy

45.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Chou En Lai

48.

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

Weil, Simone

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Without a country, I am not a man.