Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Bolt, Robert

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

10.

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

Moliere

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

15.

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

Custine, Marquis De

16.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

17.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

18.

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

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Chou En Lai

21.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

22.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

23.

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

Sellar, W. C.

24.

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

Truman, Harry S

25.

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

De Delloy

26.

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

Plato

27.

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

Buechner, Professor William

28.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

29.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

30.

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.

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

33.

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

Wilder, Billy

34.

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

Weil, Simone

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

39.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

41.

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.

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

44.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Bunche, Ralph

46.

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

Ruskin, John

47.

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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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

49.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

50.

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

Gaulle, Charles De