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

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

Truman, Harry S

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

12.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

Weil, Simone

14.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

15.

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

Wilder, Billy

18.

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

Bunche, Ralph

19.

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

De Delloy

21.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

27.

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

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.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Capone, Al

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

34.

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

Swayze, John

35.

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

Custine, Marquis De

38.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Ruskin, John

44.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Hochhuth, Rolf