Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Bunche, Ralph

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

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

Sigourney, Lydia

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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.

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

10.

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

Buechner, Professor William

11.

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

Weil, Simone

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

15.

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

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.

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The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

De Delloy

18.

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

Hope, Bob

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

23.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Moliere

32.

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

Chou En Lai

33.

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

Wilder, Billy

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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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

37.

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 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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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

40.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

43.

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

44.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

46.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel