Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Buechner, Professor William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Weil, Simone

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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 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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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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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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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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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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

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

Plato

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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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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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Twain, Mark

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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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

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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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Capone, Al

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Chou En Lai

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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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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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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