"Without a country, I am not a man."

Al-Sabah, Nawaf Al-Nasir on Nations
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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."

Bagehot, Walter on Nations
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"Nations, like men, have their infancy."

Bolingbroke, Henry on Nations
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"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!"

Bolt, Robert on Nations
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"The French complain of everything, and always."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Nations
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"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."

Bradbury, Malcolm on Nations
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."

Brebner, J. Bartlett on Nations
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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."

Briand, Aristide on Nations
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"A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered."

Burke, Edmund on Nations
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"Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe."

Burke, Edmund on Nations
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"England can never be ruined except by a Parliament."

Burleigh, Lord on Nations
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"A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe."

Burton, Pierre on Nations
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"I don't even know what street Canada is on."

Capone, Al on Nations
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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."

Carter, Jimmy on Nations
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"If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on Nations
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"China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders."

Chou En Lai on Nations
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"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."

Churchill, Randolph on Nations
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"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]"

Churchill, Winston on Nations
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"The maxim of the British people is Business as usual."

Churchill, Winston on Nations
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"The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Nations
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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."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on Nations
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"There's always something fishy about the French."

Coward, Noel on Nations
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"God made the country and man made the town."

Cowper, William on Nations
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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."

Custine, Marquis De on Nations
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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."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on Nations
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"The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own."

De Delloy on Nations
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"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Nations
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"Great countries are those that produce great people."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Nations
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"Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad."

Edinborough, Arnold on Nations
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"How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?"

Gaulle, Charles De on Nations
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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."

Goldman, Emma on Nations
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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."

Herzen, Alexander on Nations
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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."

Hobsbawm, E. J. on Nations
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"Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests."

Hochhuth, Rolf on Nations
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"The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup."

Hope, Bob on Nations
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"The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. [About Russia]"

Hope, Bob on Nations
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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."

Hugo, Victor on Nations
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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."

Huxley, Aldous on Nations
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

Jerrold, Douglas William on Nations
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"A nation is the same people living in the same place."

Joyce, James on Nations
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