Nation Quotes

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.

Proverb

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi

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

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Pearl Buck

The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.

De Delloy

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.

Sir Humphrey Davy

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.

Hubert Humphrey

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

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.

Jimmy Carter

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Austin O'Malley

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moli

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

George Bernard Shaw

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

Sully

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Randolph Churchill

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

Chou En Lai

I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Eric Hoffer