Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Nations

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

De Delloy

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

13.

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

Sellar, W. C.

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

20.

Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Bunche, Ralph

25.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Acheson, Dean

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.

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

34.

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

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.

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

37.

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

Moliere

38.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

39.

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

Capone, Al

40.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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.

42.

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

Buechner, Professor William

43.

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

Hope, Bob

44.

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

46.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

48.

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

Swayze, John

49.

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

50.

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

Twain, Mark