Nations, like men, have their infancy. – Henry Bolingbroke Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. – Francis Bacon Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. – Edmund Burke Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron Category: Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens Category: Weakness