Best Quotes about Nations
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
Gaulle, Charles De
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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
The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
De Delloy
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Kipling, Rudyard
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
Wilder, Billy
The French complain of everything, and always.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Disraeli, Benjamin
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Twain, Mark
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
Sellar, W. C.
The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Bolingbroke, Henry
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
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Burleigh, Lord
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
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.
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Custine, Marquis De
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
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Truman, Harry S
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
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
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
Sigourney, Lydia
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
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Ruskin, John
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
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
Cicero, Marcus T.
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
Bunche, Ralph
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Buechner, Professor William
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Bradbury, Malcolm
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.
Swayze, John
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Hochhuth, Rolf
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
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Capone, Al
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
Chou En Lai
There's always something fishy about the French.
Coward, Noel
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
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.
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
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Disraeli, Benjamin
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
Burke, Edmund
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]
Churchill, Winston
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