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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
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Best Quotes about Nations

1.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.
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.

3.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Ruskin, John

4.
Without a country, I am not a man.
Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

5.
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.

6.
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.
Swayze, John

7.
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

8.
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

9.
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Hochhuth, Rolf

10.
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.

11.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Capone, Al

12.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Disraeli, Benjamin

13.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
Bolt, Robert

14.
We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
Kennedy, John F.

15.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
Wilder, Billy

16.
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
Wilder, Billy

17.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Twain, Mark

18.
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]
Churchill, Winston

20.
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
Weil, Simone

22.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Truman, Harry S

23.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato

24.
The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Buechner, Professor William

25.
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.

26.
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

27.
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

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

30.
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

31.
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
Cicero, Marcus T.

32.
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

33.
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

34.
The French complain of everything, and always.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Jerrold, Douglas William

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.
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

38.
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
Sellar, W. C.

39.
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Bolingbroke, Henry

40.
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Twain, Mark

41.
Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

42.
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

43.
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
Chou En Lai

44.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Saki

45.
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Burleigh, Lord

46.
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

47.
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
Burke, Edmund

48.
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

49.
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Bradbury, Malcolm

50.
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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