Poland

Poland – that is to say, nowhere.
— Alfred Jarry

Poland is a country in Central Europe.

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Poland has been a source of trouble for over five hundred years.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a conversation with Winston Churchill in Yalta in 1945. Reported in Churchill, Winston (1986). The Second World War, Volume 6: Triumph and Tragedy. Mariner Books.

Quant à l'action qui va commencer, elle se passe en Pologne, c’est-à-dire nulle part.
- As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland – that is to say, nowhere.
- Introduction to the premier of Ubu Roi in Paris in 1896. Quoted in Jarry, Alfred; transl. Beverly Keith and Gershon Legman (2003). Ubu Roi. Dover Publications.

Un polonais – c'est un charmeur; deux polonais – une bagarre; trois polonais, eh bien, c'est la question polonaise.
- One Pole is a charmer; two Poles – a brawl; three Poles – well, this is the Polish Question.
- Voltaire, quoted in Davies, Norman (1996). Europe: A History. Oxford University Press.

Well, actually, he forgot Poland.
- George W. Bush, about John Kerry enumerating U.S. allies during a presidential debate in 2004
- The First Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate. Commission on Presidential Debates. Retrieved on 2009-09-05.

We shall soon have the scenes of the Polish Diets and elections re-acted here, and in not many years the fate of Poland may be that of United America.
- Charles Pinckney, speech to the U.S. Congress in 1800 about presidential elections. Quoted in Vile, John R. (2005). The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding. ABC-CLIO.

With respect to us, Poland might be, in fact, considered as a country in the moon.
- Edmund Burke, in a parliamentary debate about Britain's war against France. Quoted in Cobbett, William; John Wright, Thomas Curson Hansard (1817). The parliamentary history of England, from the earliest period to the year 1803. T.C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.

Żeby Polska była Polską.
- Let Poland be Poland.
- Jan Pietrzak, Polish comedian. Title of a patriotic song written in 1976 which became an informal anthem of the Solidarity movement in the 1980s.
- Polish National Hymns, Anthems, and Patriotic Songs. The Polish Academic Information Center. Retrieved on 2009-09-05.

Через труп белой Польши лежит путь к мировому пожару.
- (Cherez trup beloy Pol'shi lezhit put' k mirovomu pozharu.)
- Over the corpse of White Poland lies the road to world-wide conflagration.
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky, order of Russian invasion of Poland in 1920. Quoted in Davies, Norman (1996). Europe: A History. Oxford University Press.

I judged the Poles by their enemies. And I found it was an almost unfailing truth that their enemies were the enemies of magnanimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery, if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I have always found that he added to these affections the passion of a hatred of Poland. She could be judged in the light of that hatred; and the judgment has proved to be right.
- Attributed to Gilbert K. Chesterton, British writer

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