Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Moliere

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Acheson, Dean

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

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

Twain, Mark

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Sellar, W. C.

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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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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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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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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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Capone, Al

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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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 people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

34.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Ruskin, John

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

Chou En Lai

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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