Nations Quote by Walter Bagehot Download Open image “Nations touch at their summits.” — Walter Bagehot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nations Summit
Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved elusive in… — David Souter Copy Share Image
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed. — David Icke Copy Share Image
The United Nations has an irreplaceable role in dealing with global issues. While other international bodies play important roles, the U.N. is the only… — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
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