Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Chou En Lai

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

Capone, Al

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.

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

Wilder, Billy

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Edinborough, Arnold

28.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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

Moliere

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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.

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

Swayze, John