Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Hope, Bob

Best Quotes about Nations

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

10.

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

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

12.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

13.

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

Bunche, Ralph

14.

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

Buechner, Professor William

15.

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

Wilder, Billy

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

Swayze, John

18.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Acheson, Dean

23.

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

Wilder, Billy

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

Bolt, Robert

27.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

28.

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

Custine, Marquis De

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Burton, Pierre

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Sellar, W. C.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Ruskin, John

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

De Delloy

41.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.

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

Hope, Bob

43.

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

44.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

48.

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

49.

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

Capone, Al

50.

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