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

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Weil, Simone

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

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Buechner, Professor William

20.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

21.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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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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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

33.

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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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Bolt, Robert

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Moliere

46.

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 people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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