Nation Quotes

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is always something new out of Africa.

Pliny the Elder

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Stewart Parnell

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

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

Benjamin Disraeli

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Charles de Gaulle

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.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

James Barrie

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Virgil

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.

John Foster Dulles

The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Franklin P. Jones

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.

Giambattista Vico

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Robert Frost

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

George Bernard Shaw

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn.

John Berger