Motivational Quotes

Nations

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Acheson, Dean

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

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

Swayze, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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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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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

31.

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

De Delloy

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

Chou En Lai

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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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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 simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

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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