"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy,..." - Quote by Voltaire
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
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“America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.”
“Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.”
“The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.”