Nation Quotes

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Bob Geldof

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

Mark Twain

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.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

Golda Meir

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.

Richard Aldington

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

James Joyce

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

Albert Goldman

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Samuel Johnson

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

Samuel Johnson

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

Samuel Johnson

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Oliver Goldsmith

God made the country and man made the town.

William Cowper

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

Malcolm Bradbury

The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.

Edouard Manes

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.

Adlai Stevenson

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

Simone Weil

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Edmund Burke

Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.

Proverb