Motivational Quotes

Nations

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Nations

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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.

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

Capone, Al

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

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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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

11.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Wilder, Billy

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

16.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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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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

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

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

Moliere

26.

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.

27.

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

De Delloy

28.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

29.

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

Swayze, John

30.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

34.

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

35.

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

Bunche, Ralph

36.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

40.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Acheson, Dean

41.

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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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.

43.

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

Burke, Edmund

44.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

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

Twain, Mark