Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Edinborough, Arnold

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

16.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

17.

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

Swayze, John

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

20.

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

Acheson, Dean

21.

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

22.

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

Capone, Al

23.

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

24.

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

De Delloy

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

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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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

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

33.

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

35.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

37.

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

Moliere

38.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

39.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

40.

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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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.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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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

44.

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.

45.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

46.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

48.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

49.

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

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

Burke, Edmund