Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Nations

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.

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

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Moliere

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

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Acheson, Dean

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Capone, Al

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Hope, Bob

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Buechner, Professor William

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Plato

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

30.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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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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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

De Delloy

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord