Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Nations

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

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

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

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Truman, Harry S

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

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

12.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

14.

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

Burton, Pierre

15.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

De Delloy

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

Hope, Bob

23.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

24.

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

Bunche, Ralph

25.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

26.

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

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

32.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Swayze, John

35.

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

36.

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

Sigourney, Lydia

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

Capone, Al

43.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Wilder, Billy

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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

Buechner, Professor William