Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Moliere

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

Ruskin, John

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

Swayze, John

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Wilder, Billy

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

10.

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

Acheson, Dean

12.

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

Buechner, Professor William

13.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

14.

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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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

16.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

17.

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

Chou En Lai

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

21.

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

22.

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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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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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

25.

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

Plato

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

Hope, Bob

27.

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

Burton, Pierre

28.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

29.

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

Weil, Simone

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

35.

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

36.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

38.

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

Wilder, Billy

39.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

40.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

Cuellar, Javier Perez De

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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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Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Custine, Marquis De

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

Burke, Edmund

48.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

49.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.