Motivational Quotes

Nations

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

- Burleigh, Lord

Best Quotes about Nations

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Sellar, W. C.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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

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

Edinborough, Arnold

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

10.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

11.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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

13.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

14.

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

Acheson, Dean

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bolt, Robert

21.

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

Weil, Simone

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Chou En Lai

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

26.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

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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

30.

This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

31.

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.

32.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Wilder, Billy

38.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Swayze, John

42.

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

De Delloy

43.

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

44.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

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

Bunche, Ralph

49.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

50.

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