Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Hochhuth, Rolf

Best Quotes about Nations

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

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Moliere

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

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

13.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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 nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

27.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

Capone, Al

29.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

30.

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

Wilder, Billy

31.

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

Swayze, John

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark

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

Sellar, W. C.

37.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

38.

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

Chou En Lai

39.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

40.

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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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

42.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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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 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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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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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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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.

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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

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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

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry