Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Swayze, John

Best Quotes about Nations

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Bolt, Robert

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Burke, Edmund

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Wilder, Billy

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

15.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

16.

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

Acheson, Dean

17.

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

18.

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

Bunche, Ralph

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

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

Wilder, Billy

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Sellar, W. C.

25.

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Cuellar, Javier Perez De

26.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

28.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Twain, Mark

29.

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

Swayze, John

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

Weil, Simone

34.

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.

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Capone, Al

37.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

38.

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

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

Hope, Bob

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

43.

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

44.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

45.

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

46.

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

Burton, Pierre

47.

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

48.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

49.

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

50.

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