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There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.


John Boswell


#christianity #church #gay-rights #roman-empire #homosexuality

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.


Zbigniew Brzezinski


#almost #breakup #brought #carry #conflict

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.


James Buchan


#doubt #empire #fall #more #much

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.


Winston Churchill


#future #mind

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.


Armstrong Williams


#country #create #democracy #democratic #embodies

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.


Lord Harlech


#britain #disposed #empire #historians #honoured

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.


Dennis Hastert


#american people #captured #communist #countless #countless millions

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.


Edward Bond


#acquired #bores #empire #english #punishment

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.


Arthur Henderson


#armies #between #british #british empire #building

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.


Samuel Butler


#empire #give #happy #make #pain






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