Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Nations

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.

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

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

Custine, Marquis De

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bunche, Ralph

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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

11.

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

12.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

14.

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

Plato

15.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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

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

Truman, Harry S

21.

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.

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

De Delloy

24.

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.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

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.

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

33.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

34.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Sigourney, Lydia

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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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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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kubrick, Stanley

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Edinborough, Arnold

42.

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

Weil, Simone

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Hope, Bob

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