Economic growth Quote by Nicholas Wade

Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one…

— David Starkey

“What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Well, in my view what would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system―because I think that's not a viable system.…

— Noam Chomsky

For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand that what…

— Joseph Stiglitz

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education…

— Anna Lindh

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order…

— H. G. Wells

“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The…

— Albert J. Nock

“according to the economists, the function of the state was not merely one of ruling the nation, but also that of recasting it in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“stability of government and dependability of laws which attracted foreigners.”

— Thomas Sowell

“the idea of separated powers and of rules governing all the contenders for power became imbedded in British tradition over the centuries.”

— Thomas Sowell

The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws…

— Albert Bushnell Hart