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

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Weil, Simone

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

Ruskin, John

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

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

11.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

16.

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

Swayze, John

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Wilder, Billy

21.

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

Custine, Marquis De

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

24.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

25.

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

Bolt, Robert

26.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Capone, Al

31.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

32.

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

Acheson, Dean

33.

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

De Delloy

34.

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

Chou En Lai

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

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

Buechner, Professor William

38.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

Bunche, Ralph

40.

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

Sellar, W. C.

41.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

42.

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.

43.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

44.

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

45.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

Kennedy, John F.

50.

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