Characteristics Quote by Walter Bagehot

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

— Richard Lamm

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

— Kathleen Parker

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

— Walter Bagehot

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

Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations…

— George Akerlof

It is possible for great nations to rot from within.

— Benjamin Wittes

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when…

— Anonymous

Before we can build a stable civilization worthy of humanity as a whole, it is necessary that each historical civilization should become conscious of…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Great nations are built by great people, not just successful people”

— Fela Durotoye

The key strengths of civilizations are also their central weaknesses. You can see that from the fact that the golden ages of civilizations are…

— Arthur Demarest

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi