Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

De Delloy

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Moliere

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

Truman, Harry S

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

11.

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

Custine, Marquis De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Burton, Pierre

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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

24.

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 French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Plato

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Hope, Bob

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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

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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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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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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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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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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 simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Buechner, Professor William

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

Capone, Al

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

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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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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.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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.