Change Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The most technologically advanced nations are the ones that win economically and militarily.

— Jon Husted

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 best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s said to be the same all over the world, in all seven seas. Islands are matriarchies of a kind seldom seen on land.…

— Fredrik Sjöberg

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

— Nicholas Monsarrat

“Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread…

— William Jennings Bryan

“The history of sea power is largely, though by no means solely, a narrative of contests between nations, of mutual rivalries, of violence frequently…

— Alfred Thayer Mahan

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the…

— Winston Churchill