Famous quotes containing the words pope, innocent and/or iii:
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)