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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
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
-Chou En Lai
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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
-Randolph Churchill
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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
-Sir Winston Churchill
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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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There's always something fishy about the French.
-Noel Coward
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God made the country and man made the town.
-William Cowper
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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
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Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
-Marquis De Custine
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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
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The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
-De Delloy
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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Great countries are those that produce great people.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
-John Foster Dulles
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Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.
-Arnold Edinborough
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
-Robert Frost
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How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
-Charles De Gaulle
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Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
-Bob Geldof
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The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.
-Albert Goldman
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Books about Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
