Nations Universal Declaration

Famous quotes containing the words nations, universal and/or declaration:

    “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 (1826–1877)

    “The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.”
    —French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (Sept. 1791)