Without a country, I am not a man.

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

The French complain of everything, and always.

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

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

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.

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

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

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

The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."

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

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.

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

Great countries are those that produce great people.

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

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.

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

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

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

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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.

I am the state.

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

The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]

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

If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.

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

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

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

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.