Nation Quotes

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.

Emma Goldman

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Rudyard Kipling

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Aldous Huxley

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Pierre Burton

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

Lord Burleigh

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Harry S Truman

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Francis Bacon

There's always something fishy about the French.

Noel Coward

Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.

John Swayze

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

J. Bartlett Brebner

The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.

Proverb

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.

E. J. Hobsbawm

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

E. J. Hobsbawm

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Al Capone