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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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Best Quotes about Nations

1.
The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
Hope, Bob

2.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Wilder, Billy

3.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Saki

4.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Kipling, Rudyard

5.
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

6.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere

7.
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
Burke, Edmund

8.
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.

9.
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.
Swayze, John

10.
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.

11.
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
Gaulle, Charles De

12.
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.

13.
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

14.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Buechner, Professor William

15.
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

16.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Twain, Mark

17.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.
Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

19.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Bradbury, Malcolm

20.
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

21.
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

22.
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.

23.
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

24.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Disraeli, Benjamin

25.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Capone, Al

26.
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

27.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Disraeli, Benjamin

28.
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
Sellar, W. C.

29.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Acheson, Dean

30.
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

31.
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

32.
There's always something fishy about the French.
Coward, Noel

33.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
Wilder, Billy

34.
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
Chou En Lai

35.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato

36.
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Kennedy, John F.

37.
The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

38.
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Hochhuth, Rolf

39.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Twain, Mark

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Bolingbroke, Henry

45.
Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Hubbard, Elbert

46.
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

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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.

50.
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
Burke, Edmund


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