Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Swayze, John

Best Quotes about Nations

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

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

Chou En Lai

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.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

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

Capone, Al

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

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.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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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

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

Bradbury, Malcolm

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

Bolt, Robert

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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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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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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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Buechner, Professor William

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Acheson, Dean

32.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

42.

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

Burton, Pierre

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

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The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Weil, Simone