Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- De Delloy

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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.

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

Swayze, John

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

10.

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

Hope, Bob

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Moliere

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

19.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

20.

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

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark

29.

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.

30.

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

Wilder, Billy

31.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.

Wilder, Billy

32.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

33.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

34.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

35.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

36.

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

Burton, Pierre

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

40.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

41.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

42.

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