Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Wilder, Billy

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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

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

Moliere

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

Burton, Pierre

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

De Delloy

24.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

31.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

32.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

Acheson, Dean

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Twain, Mark

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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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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

46.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Plato

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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