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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
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
-Alexander Herzen
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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
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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
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Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
-Rolf Hochhuth
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
-Eric Hoffer
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
-Bob Hope
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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. About Russia
-Bob Hope
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
-Victor Hugo
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The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
-Hubert Humphrey
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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
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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
-W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
-Samuel Johnson
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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
-Samuel Johnson
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
-Samuel Johnson
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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
-Franklin P. Jones
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.
-James Joyce
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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
-Rudyard Kipling
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
-Stanley Kubrick
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
-Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
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Books about Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
