Famous quotes containing the words louis, france and/or ascendancy:
“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
—John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
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