Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Edinborough, Arnold

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

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Wilder, Billy

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

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

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Warner, Charles Dudley

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

Hope, Bob

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Weil, Simone

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Moliere

18.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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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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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

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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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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

De Delloy

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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

28.

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

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

Burton, Pierre

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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Swayze, John

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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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

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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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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

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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.

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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