Motivational Quotes

Nations

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Kennedy, John F.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilder, Billy

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Moliere

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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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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 people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Acheson, Dean

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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

29.

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

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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

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

42.

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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

De Delloy

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Plato

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

Chou En Lai

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

Truman, Harry S