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National Character Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.”
George Washington
2.
“It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.”
Calvin Coolidge
3.
“Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.”
Alfred Tennyson
4.
“A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the matter.”
Jules Verne
5.
“In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.”
Jules Verne
6.
“If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman.”
Jules Verne
7.
“Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.”
Jules Verne
8.
“Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.”
Jules Verne
9.
“It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.”
Jules Verne
10.
“As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.”
Douglas Adams
11.
“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
12.
“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
13.
“The vicarious policemanship which was the strongest emotion of Englishmen towards another man's muddle, in their case was replaced by the instinct to pass by as discreetly far as possible on the other side.”
T.E. Lawrence
14.
“The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.”
Thomas Jefferson
15.
“We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.”
Thomas Jefferson
16.
“Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.”
John Milton
17.
“The American people abhor a vacuum.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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