Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

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

Chou En Lai

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

Moliere

10.

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

Weil, Simone

11.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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.

13.

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

Twain, Mark

14.

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.

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Bolt, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

22.

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

23.

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

Wilder, Billy

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

28.

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

Custine, Marquis De

29.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

30.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

31.

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

Hope, Bob

32.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

33.

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

34.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

35.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Capone, Al

39.

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

Sellar, W. C.

40.

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

41.

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

De Delloy

42.

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

43.

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

Buechner, Professor William

44.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

45.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

46.

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

47.

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

Burton, Pierre

48.

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

Twain, Mark

49.

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