best quotations about
Countries & Nations |
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Quotations
 | Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 25 likes |
 | — Pity the country that breeds no hero. — No, pity the country that needs heroes. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 14 likes |
 | The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 12 likes |
 | China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 11 likes |
 | Nations have no friends, only interests. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 8 likes |
 | This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 8 likes |
| Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 7 likes |
 | The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Sex in France is a comedy; in England it is a tragedy; in America it's a melodrama; in Italy it's an opera; in Germany, a reason to take up philosophy — Anonymous 7 likes |
 | The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 6 likes |
 | The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are often no longer strong. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 6 likes |
 | Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 5 likes |
| If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 5 likes |
 | You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 4 likes |
 | Every nation criticizes every other one — and they are all correct. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 3 likes |
 | Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | Countries without winter have no spring. — Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer 3 likes |
| India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 2 likes |
 | All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 2 likes |
 | Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 2 likes |
 | My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States. — Donald Trump, 1946-, President of the USA 2 likes |
| Morocco... Looks better in films. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 2 likes |
 | I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments. |
 | The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. |
| Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. |
 | There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. |
 | Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system. |
| The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision... Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. |
 | It is a shame that we have to choose between two such second-class countries as the Soviet Union and the United States. |
 | A nation is a body of people who have done great things together. |
| Oblivion, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation. |
| Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation. |
 | The contemporary anthropologist, under progressives’ severe gaze, skips quickly over ethnic differences like over hot coals. |
Latin Quotes
 | Homeland is where your life is good. Ubi bene, ibi patria. 45 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold, And Commerce settles on every tree. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Your country becomes great when in trouble. Ση πατρίς εν γαρ τοις πόνοισιν αύξεται. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ The Suppliants 3 likes |
