Quote by Henry Bolingbroke
Nations, like men, have their infancy. - Henry Bolingbroke

Nations, like men, have their infancy. – Henry Bolingbroke

Other quotes by Henry Bolingbroke

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

Category:
Knowledge
Read Quote

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. – Henry Bolingbroke

Category:
Pride
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
category

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of Englands many spurious gifts to the world. – Richard Aldington

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. – Walter Bagehot

Random Quotes

Youre not working with models, youre working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy. – Isaac Mizrahi

Category:
Women

Politics makes strange bedfellows. – Charles Dudley Warner

Category:
Politics

Ive learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them. – Eli Wallach

Category:
Business

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If were looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldnt test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. – P. J. ORourke

Category:
Love