Nation Quotes

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

John Lukacs

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Sir Winston Churchill

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Sir Winston Churchill

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Marquis De Custine

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

Abraham Lincoln

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

I am the state.

Louis XIV

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Lydia Sigourney

If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.

Henry Codman Potter

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

V. S. Pritchett

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

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

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Rolf Hochhuth

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