Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Kennedy, John F.

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 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

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Buechner, Professor William

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

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

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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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.

11.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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

Acheson, Dean

13.

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

Sellar, W. C.

14.

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

15.

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

Plato

16.

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.

17.

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

Capone, Al

18.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

19.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

30.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Bunche, Ralph

33.

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

Wilder, Billy

34.

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

Hope, Bob

35.

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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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

37.

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

38.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

39.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

40.

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

Truman, Harry S

41.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

44.

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

Burke, Edmund

45.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

46.

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

Swayze, John

47.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

48.

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

Chou En Lai

49.

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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

Bolt, Robert