Politics Quote by Jared Diamond

“for centuries much of the world's international trade was carried in ships that sailed past West Africa on their way between Europe and Asia…

— Thomas Sowell

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. When I contemplate the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The history of Europe before the Conquest is sufficient proof that the Europeans did not have to cross the oceans to find the will…

— Silvia Federici

“Now that war was spilling over into different continents, the resulting dispersal of Britain’s naval resources left traditional European frontier sites like Menorca more…

— Linda Colley

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am keenly aware that the wealth and power of the European nations are the result not only of their having ships and powerful…

— Sun Yat-sen

Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of…

— Sanjaya Baru

“Discovery of new territories was becoming the great new entrepreneurial enterprise, and only a few countries, most notably Portugal and Castille, had recognized the…

— Kirstin Downey

“nineteenth century economic development was "the development of continents instead of coast lines."98”

— Thomas Sowell

“There are not many other such places where the maritime element of our national strength cannot be applied, but where this is true, where…

— J.C. Wylie

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe…

— Peter Padfield

“Only three routes of upward mobility were available to socially ambitious upstarts such as Columbus: war, the Church, and the sea. Columbus probably contemplated…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto