If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no… — John Newton Copy Share Image
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches. I blot out cemetaries.… — Harry Crosby Copy Share Image
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wars' fan. And so… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
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