Quotes about Nations

“I am the state.”

“Without a country, I am not a man.”

“Nations, like men, have their infancy.”

“I don't even know what street Canada is on.”

“God made the country and man made the town.”

“There is always something new out of Africa.”

“The French complain of everything, and always.”

“A people always ends by resembling its shadow.”

“There's always something fishy about the French.”

“Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.”

“The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.”

“England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.”

“Great countries are those that produce great people.”

“A nation is the same people living in the same place.”

“The maxim of the British people is ''Business as usual.''”

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”

“Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.”

“A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.”

“The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.”

“The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.”

“Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.”

“A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.”

“The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there.”

“The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.”

“Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.”

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

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]”

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

“I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.”

“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!”