summit quotes

Diplomatic problems used to be discussed by ambassadors† Foreign Ministers were called†somebody thought of the summit meetings† Wearenearing themoment whenpolitical meetingswill be held at a divine level.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Comment to reporters in Florence, Sep. Recalled in This Vast External Realm (1973).

Soldats, songez que, du haut de ces pyramides, quarante sie'  cles vous contemplent. Soldiers, think that, from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

-Napoleon I
  Speech to the  Army of Egypt, before the Battle of the Pyramids, 21 Jul. Quoted in Gaspard Gourgaud Me  moires (1823), vol.2,'Egypte, Bataille des Pyramides'.

For too long, society has resembled a pyramid that has been turned upside down and made to rest on its summit. I have replaced it on its base.

-LouisNapoleon Bonaparte
  Speech to the Legislative  Assembly, 29 Mar.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

- I(van) P(etrovich) Pavlov
  Bequest to theAcademicYouth of Soviet Russia.

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

- Robert Edwin Peary
  Description of crossing and then passing the Pole. The North Pole (published1910).