Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wilder, Billy

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.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

Buechner, Professor William

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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

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

15.

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

Capone, Al

16.

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

17.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

19.

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

21.

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

Plato

22.

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

23.

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

Burton, Pierre

24.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

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

27.

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

Weil, Simone

28.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

29.

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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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

31.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

Hope, Bob

34.

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

Wilder, Billy

36.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

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

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

De Delloy

40.

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

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

42.

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

Custine, Marquis De

43.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

46.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.