Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

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Best Quotes about Nations

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

Kennedy, John F.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

De Delloy

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bunche, Ralph

10.

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

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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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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

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Plato

20.

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

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

26.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

27.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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.

30.

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

Hope, Bob

31.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

33.

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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

35.

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

Capone, Al

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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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

41.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Wilder, Billy

46.

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin