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

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

Acheson, Dean

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

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

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Wilder, Billy

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.

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

Moliere

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

Twain, Mark

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 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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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Custine, Marquis De

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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

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

Capone, Al

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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

25.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Buechner, Professor William

32.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

33.

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

Chou En Lai

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Plato

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Truman, Harry S

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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.

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

Swayze, John

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The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Huxley, Aldous