Motivational Quotes

Nations

There's always something fishy about the French.

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Weil, Simone

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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

11.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

De Delloy

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

Sellar, W. C.

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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.

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

Custine, Marquis De

31.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Twain, Mark

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

Bunche, Ralph

33.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]

Hope, Bob

34.

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

Swayze, John

35.

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

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

Bolt, Robert

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Burton, Pierre

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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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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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