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The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.
-Proverb
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The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.
-Proverb
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Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.
-Proverb
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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
-Dean Acheson
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
-James Agate
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Without a country, I am not a man.
-Nawaf Al-Nasir Al-Sabah
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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
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
-Francis Bacon
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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
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
-James Barrie
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity -- their links with their dead and the unborn.
-John Berger
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Nations, like men, have their infancy.
-Henry Bolingbroke
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The French complain of everything, and always.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
-Malcolm Bradbury
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
-J. Bartlett Brebner
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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
-Aristide Briand
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
-Pearl Buck
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
-Ralph Bunche
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
-Edmund Burke
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
-Edmund Burke
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
-Lord Burleigh
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A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
-Pierre Burton
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
-Albert Camus
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I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-Al Capone
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Books about Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
