Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Swayze, John

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

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

14.

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

Bunche, Ralph

15.

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

16.

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

Plato

17.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

18.

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

Wilder, Billy

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

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

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

23.

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

Weil, Simone

24.

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

Truman, Harry S

25.

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

Moliere

26.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

28.

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

29.

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

Bolt, Robert

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Burton, Pierre

36.

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

37.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

38.

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

Chou En Lai

39.

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

Acheson, Dean

40.

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

41.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.

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

43.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

44.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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

Sellar, W. C.

47.

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

Buechner, Professor William

48.

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 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.

50.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Capone, Al