Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Nations

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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

Buechner, Professor William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

10.

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

Burton, Pierre

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Wilder, Billy

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

23.

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

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

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

Acheson, Dean

26.

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

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.

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

30.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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.

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

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

Capone, Al

35.

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

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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.

37.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

38.

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

Chou En Lai

39.

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

Swayze, John

40.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

42.

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

43.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

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

46.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Bunche, Ralph

49.

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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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