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

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Buechner, Professor William

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

Hope, Bob

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Weil, Simone

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

Wilder, Billy

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

13.

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

Moliere

14.

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

Swayze, John

15.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

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

20.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

23.

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

24.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

25.

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

Capone, Al

26.

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.

27.

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

Truman, Harry S

28.

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.

29.

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

Bunche, Ralph

30.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

31.

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

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

35.

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

Wilder, Billy

36.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

47.

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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

Hubbard, Elbert