Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Bolt, Robert

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Acheson, Dean

11.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

12.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

13.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

14.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Custine, Marquis De

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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

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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

19.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

21.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Buechner, Professor William

25.

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

Chou En Lai

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

27.

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.

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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

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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

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

34.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moliere

48.

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