Motivational Quotes

Nations

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Kennedy, John F.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Plato

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

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

13.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

14.

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

Hope, Bob

15.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

18.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.

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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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Sellar, W. C.

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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

25.

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

Chou En Lai

26.

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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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

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

29.

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

Wilder, Billy

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Truman, Harry S

36.

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

Bolt, Robert

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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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.

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

41.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

42.

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

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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 maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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