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

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

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

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

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

Swayze, John

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

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

Custine, Marquis De

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 simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bolt, Robert

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

18.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Chou En Lai

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

Capone, Al

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Weil, Simone

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Moliere

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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

De Delloy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Plato

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bunche, Ralph