Motivational Quotes

Nations

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

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Nations

Without a country, I am not a man.

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir

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

Kubrick, Stanley

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Truman, Harry S

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

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki

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

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot

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

Bolt, Robert

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

Swayze, John

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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 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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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Burke, Edmund

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Edinborough, Arnold

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

Weil, Simone

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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.

Warner, Charles Dudley

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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

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

Plato

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

Hochhuth, Rolf

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

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

Wilder, Billy

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Capone, Al

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

Bunche, Ralph

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Chou En Lai

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Hope, Bob

48.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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