National Cross Country

Famous quotes containing the words national, cross and/or country:

    “Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.”
    —French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed Aug. 1789, published Sept. 1791)

    “To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
    —Douglass Cross (b. 1920)

    “We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilisation.”
    —Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)