Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Burton, Pierre

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

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

Buechner, Professor William

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

Edinborough, Arnold

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Goldman, Emma

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

10.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

11.

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.

12.

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

Acheson, Dean

13.

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

Bolt, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

22.

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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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 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

28.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Burton, Pierre

31.

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

Chou En Lai

32.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

33.

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

Wilder, Billy

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

36.

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

Truman, Harry S

37.

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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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

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

De Delloy

40.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

42.

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

Wilder, Billy

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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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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

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

Kubrick, Stanley

46.

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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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

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

Capone, Al

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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