Motivational Quotes

Nations

Great countries are those that produce great people.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Burton, Pierre

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

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kubrick, Stanley

10.

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

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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.

13.

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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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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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

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Wilder, Billy

18.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Capone, Al

19.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

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

Moliere

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

23.

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

Hope, Bob

24.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

25.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

26.

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

27.

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

Acheson, Dean

28.

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

Bolt, Robert

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Burke, Edmund

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

36.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

37.

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

38.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

39.

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

40.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

41.

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

Bunche, Ralph

42.

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

Ruskin, John

43.

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

44.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

45.

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

Plato

46.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

47.

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

48.

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

Wilder, Billy

49.

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

Custine, Marquis De