"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

Nation, Countries

10

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."

Exlpore more Nation quotes

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Nation, Country, Dignity, Importance, Office

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Nation, Country, Democrats, Republican, Republicans

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Nation, Nations, Right, United, Vote

"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

Nation, Country, France, Garden, Heaven

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Nation,

"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

Meg Whitman, American Businessman

Nation, Country, Economy, State, States

"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

Penelope Lively, English Author

Nation, Country, Deep, Feeling

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Nation, Country, Dying, Killing, Talk

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Nation, Rest, Will

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Nation, Nations, Right

Explore more quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."

Friendship

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

Death

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

Social Issues

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

Life

"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."

Content

"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."

Reason

"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."

Success

10

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Nation quotes

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Explore more quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts."

"The less men think, the more they talk."

"To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight."

"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."

"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear."

"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."