Modern Destroyers

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or destroyers:

“The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)