"If the Earth were a single state,..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.
More by Napoleon Bonaparte
“A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.”
“Vengeance is without foresight.”
“The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.”
More on Geography
“What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.”
“The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.”
“We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.”
More on Globalism
“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.”
“It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.”
“Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.”