Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Swayze, John

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

De Delloy

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

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

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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

11.

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

Burton, Pierre

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

Edinborough, Arnold

15.

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

Bolt, Robert

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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

18.

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

Custine, Marquis De

19.

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

20.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

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

Buechner, Professor William

22.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Chou En Lai

26.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

28.

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

Wilder, Billy

29.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

30.

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

31.

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

Hope, Bob

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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.

34.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

35.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Weil, Simone

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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.