Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.
If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.
Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
. . . It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy
The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.
Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.
With unfailing consistency, U. S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U. S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries. . . whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests.
Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
Classical thermodynamics. . . is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced. . . will never be overthrown.
The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
