Spanish Empire/the Bourbon Spanish Empire - Reform and Recovery 1700-1808

Famous quotes containing the words spanish, empire, reform and/or recovery:

    “I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
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    “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.””
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    “Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
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    “With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
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