Nation Quotes


The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind. Marcus Tullius Cicero Nation 385
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. Laws change, people die, the land remains. Abraham Lincoln Nation 345
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. Giuseppe Mazzini Nation 229
Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. Arnold Edinborough Nation 154
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust. Lord Byron Nation 142
The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. John Stuart Mill Nation 116
Altogether, national hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nation 115
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world. Ralph Bunche Nation 115
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 Karl Marx Nation 113
The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten. Calvin Coolidge Nation 110
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper. Billy Wilder Nation 106
Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nation 100
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. John Milton Nation 99
The French complain of everything, and always. Napoleon Bonaparte Nation 99
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. Plato Nation 97
The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. Bob Hope Nation 96
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. Sir Winston Churchill Nation 95
A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke Nation 95
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it. Albert Camus Nation 92
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. Niccolo Machiavelli Nation 90
The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work. Proverbs Nation 90
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. Pope John Paul II Nation 89
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. Walter Bagehot Nation 88
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. Walt Whitman Nation 88
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. Charles Dudley Warner Nation 87
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. Douglas William Jerrold Nation 86
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. W. R. [William Ralph] Inge Nation 86
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer Nation 85
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion. Moli Nation 85
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. J. Bartlett Brebner Nation 84
There is always something new out of Africa. Pliny The Elder Nation 80
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. George Bernard Shaw Nation 79
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are often no longer strong. Winston Churchill Nation 78
We are a better Nation and the world is a safer place because of Ronald Reagan. Thad Cochran Nation 78
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell Nation 76
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. Randolph Churchill Nation 74
The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own. De Delloy Nation 74
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. Henry David Thoreau Nation 74
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. Eric Hoffer Nation 74
A nation is an organic thing. Peter Brimelow Nation 73
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer Nation 73
The state is made for man, not man for the state. Albert Einstein Nation 73
The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves. Albert Goldman Nation 73
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. D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence Nation 72
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. Pearl Buck Nation 72
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. George Santayana Nation 71
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. Benjamin Disraeli Nation 71
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. Aristide Briand Nation 70
The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there. Edouard Manes Nation 70
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. Mark Twain Nation 69

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