Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Wilder, Billy

Best Quotes about Nations

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kubrick, Stanley

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Plato

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

De Delloy

10.

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

Wilder, Billy

14.

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

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

18.

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

19.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

21.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Burton, Pierre

24.

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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There's always something fishy about the French.

Coward, Noel

26.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bolt, Robert

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

32.

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

Hope, Bob

33.

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

Custine, Marquis De

34.

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

35.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

38.

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

Buechner, Professor William

39.

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

40.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Swayze, John

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Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Chou En Lai

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

Moliere

49.

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

Gaulle, Charles De