Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Bolt, Robert

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

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Burton, Pierre

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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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

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

De Delloy

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Buechner, Professor William

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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

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Swayze, John

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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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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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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Plato

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

Moliere

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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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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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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 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.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Sellar, W. C.

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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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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

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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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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