Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

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

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

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Custine, Marquis De

10.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Capone, Al

14.

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

Swayze, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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

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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

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

22.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Buechner, Professor William

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

30.

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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

37.

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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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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

Hope, Bob

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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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

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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