Motivational Quotes

Nations

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Truman, Harry S

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Moliere

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

18.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

19.

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Swayze, John

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Wilder, Billy

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

De Delloy

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

33.

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

Hope, Bob

35.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

Buechner, Professor William

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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 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

44.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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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

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