Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Swayze, John

Best Quotes about Nations

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Swayze, John

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

Capone, Al

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

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Bolt, Robert

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.

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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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

11.

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

12.

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

Moliere

13.

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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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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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

16.

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

Hope, Bob

17.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

28.

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

Acheson, Dean

29.

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

30.

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

Chou En Lai

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Burke, Edmund

34.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

39.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

42.

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.

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

46.

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

49.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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