• 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

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 194 reads

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• I remain attached to my nation.

  

  Lionel Jospin

  PoliticianFrench1937 · 20th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 40 reads

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• I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 110 reads

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• I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 137 reads

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• If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.1 · 28 votes · 17 reads

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• Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating t

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 189 reads

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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.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 48 votes · 151 reads

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

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.9 · 41 votes · 103 reads

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• Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 144 reads

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• Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 129 reads

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• National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 37 reads

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• Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 84 reads

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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.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 70 reads

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• Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 184 reads

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• Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 58 votes · 102 reads

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• Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 150 reads

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

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 92 reads

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• Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 76 reads

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

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 26 reads

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• States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 32 reads

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• The French complain of everything, and always.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.7 · 17 votes · 52 reads

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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

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 101 reads

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

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 139 reads

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• The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 113 reads

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

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 28 votes · 4 reads

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• The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 194 reads

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• Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 55 reads

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• We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological c

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 152 reads

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• We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

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  Felipe VI

  RoyaltySpanish1968 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 104 reads

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• When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 123 reads

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• Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 106 reads

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• You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.1 · 44 votes · 101 reads

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