Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Burton, Pierre

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hope, Bob

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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

Gaulle, Charles De

10.

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.

11.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

12.

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

Truman, Harry S

13.

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

Plato

14.

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

Bunche, Ralph

15.

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.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

17.

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

18.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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.

20.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

21.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

Buechner, Professor William

24.

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

De Delloy

25.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

26.

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

27.

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

Moliere

28.

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

29.

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

30.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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.

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.

33.

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

Swayze, John

34.

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

35.

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

Custine, Marquis De

36.

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

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

38.

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

39.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

43.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

44.

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.

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.

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

Bolt, Robert

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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