Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Buechner, Professor William

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

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.

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Acheson, Dean

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

Chou En Lai

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

Burton, Pierre

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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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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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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Swayze, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Burke, Edmund

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Wilder, Billy

31.

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

De Delloy

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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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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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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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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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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

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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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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

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

Plato

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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

48.

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

Hope, Bob

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Cuellar, Javier Perez De

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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