Nations Quotes
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. (Quote by - Lord Burleigh)
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. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! (Quote by - Robert Bolt)
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. (Quote by - Billy Wilder)
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Without a country, I am not a man. (Quote by - Nawaf Al-Nasir Al-Sabah)
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. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
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. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
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. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
Great countries are those that produce great people. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. (Quoute by - Walter Bagehot)
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
God made the country and man made the town. (Quoute by - William Cowper)
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. (Quote by - Ulysses S. Grant)
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. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. (Quote by - Chou En Lai)
The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. (Quote by - Bob Hope)
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language, religion, government, blood, identity in these makes men of one country. (Quoute by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise. (Quote by - Marquis De Custine)
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
A nation can assume that the addition of the words under God to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in believing in God. (Quote by - Huston Smith)
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. (Quote by - Aristide Briand)
A nation is the same people living in the same place. (Quote by - James Joyce)
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. (Quote by - Abraham Flexner)
The French complain of everything, and always. (Quoute by - Napoleon I)
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
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. (Quote by - John Milton)
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered. (Quoute by - Edmund Burke)
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. (Quote by - Randolph Churchill)
Nations, like men, have their infancy. (Quote by - Henry Bolingbroke)
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A people always ends by resembling its shadow. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. (Quote by - Pierre Burton)
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. (Quote by - Lucretia Mott)
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments. (Quote by - Joseph Anderson)
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. (Quote by - MoliFre)
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. (Quote by - Belva Lockwood)
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual". (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
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. (Quote by - Giambattista Vico)
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. (Quote by - E. J. Hobsbawm)
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. (Quote by - Giuseppe Mazzini)
Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. (Quote by - Arnold Edinborough)
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. (Quote by - Lydia Sigourney)
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. (Quoute by - Edmund Burke)
How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese? (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
I don't even know what street Canada is on. (Quote by - Al Capone)
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. (Quote by - Plato)
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. (Quote by - Malcolm Bradbury)
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. (Quote by - Bob Hope)
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. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there. (Quote by - Edouard Manes)
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper. (Quote by - Billy Wilder)
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. (Quote by - Aphra Behn)
The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count. (Quote by - George Mikes)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. (Quoute by - Winston Churchill)
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. (Quote by - Kemal Ataturk)
The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. (Quoute by - Marcus Tulius Cicero)
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests. (Quote by - Rolf Hochhuth)
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. (Quote by - J. Bartlett Brebner)
There's always something fishy about the French. (Quote by - Noel Coward)
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. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
There is always something new out of Africa. (Quote by - Pliny The Elder)
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant. (Quote by - John Swayze)
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. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. (Quote by - Claude McKay)
