Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Chou En Lai

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Chou En Lai

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

10.

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

Capone, Al

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

14.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Swayze, John

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

Buechner, Professor William

18.

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

De Delloy

19.

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

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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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

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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.

24.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

Burton, Pierre

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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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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.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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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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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Hope, Bob

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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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

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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