Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Sigourney, Lydia

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Hope, Bob

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

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

De Delloy

13.

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

14.

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

Chou En Lai

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

24.

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

25.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Burton, Pierre

30.

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

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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.

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

Bolt, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

Buechner, Professor William

35.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Bolingbroke, Henry

36.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Huxley, Aldous

37.

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

Sellar, W. C.

38.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

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

40.

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

Kennedy, John F.

41.

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

Truman, Harry S

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

44.

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

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

49.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

50.

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

Burke, Edmund