Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or sweet:
“Ce corps qui s’appelait et qui s’appelle encore le saint empire romain n’était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“And all now is war
where so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the use
of tilled fields.”
—Charles Olson (1910–1970)