Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

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

10.

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

11.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

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

Burke, Edmund

14.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

15.

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

16.

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

Hope, Bob

17.

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

Moliere

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

21.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

22.

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

Chou En Lai

24.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Sigourney, Lydia

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Sellar, W. C.

29.

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.

30.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

32.

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

Wilder, Billy

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

35.

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

36.

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

De Delloy

37.

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

Swayze, John

38.

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

Weil, Simone

39.

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

40.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

41.

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

42.

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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Cuellar, Javier Perez De