Motivational Quotes

Nations

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

- Saki

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilder, Billy

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

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

Chou En Lai

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Moliere

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

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

Bolt, Robert

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Swayze, John

16.

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

Buechner, Professor William

17.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

Capone, Al

20.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

21.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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.

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

25.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

26.

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.

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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

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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.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

30.

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

De Delloy

31.

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

Sellar, W. C.

32.

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

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

34.

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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

Kubrick, Stanley

39.

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

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

Weil, Simone

41.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

42.

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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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

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

Burke, Edmund

45.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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

Hope, Bob

49.

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

50.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir