Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Bolt, Robert

Best Quotes about Nations

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

De Delloy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Swayze, John

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

Sigourney, Lydia

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

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

13.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

Burton, Pierre

22.

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

23.

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

Wilder, Billy

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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

25.

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

Custine, Marquis De

26.

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

Buechner, Professor William

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Sellar, W. C.

30.

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

Bunche, Ralph

31.

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

Chou En Lai

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Moliere

35.

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

37.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

38.

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

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Edinborough, Arnold

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

44.

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

Weil, Simone

45.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Kubrick, Stanley

49.

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

Plato

50.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De