Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Wilder, Billy

Best Quotes about Nations

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

10.

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

11.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

12.

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

Burton, Pierre

13.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

14.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

15.

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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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

17.

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

18.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

19.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

20.

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

Moliere

21.

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

22.

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

Truman, Harry S

23.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

24.

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.

25.

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

Buechner, Professor William

26.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

28.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

29.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

30.

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

31.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Hope, Bob

36.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

40.

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 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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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

43.

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Swayze, John

47.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot