Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Hochhuth, Rolf

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Moliere

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Swayze, John

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Bunche, Ralph

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

10.

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

11.

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

Acheson, Dean

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Chou En Lai

17.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

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

19.

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

Kennedy, John F.

20.

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

Ruskin, John

21.

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

22.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

23.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

24.

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

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

28.

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

De Delloy

29.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

30.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

31.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

32.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

33.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

34.

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

Burton, Pierre

35.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

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

Capone, Al

41.

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

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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

43.

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

Sellar, W. C.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

Bolt, Robert

49.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

50.

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