Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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 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

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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

11.

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Moliere

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Sellar, W. C.

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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

18.

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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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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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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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.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

26.

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

Plato

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Chou En Lai

38.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Swayze, John

42.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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