In the history of European peoples the city of Washington is perhaps what Constantinople - the infant city of Emperor Constantine - was to the last phase of the Roman Empire; for it is unlikely that Europeans, a century hence, will continue to stamp the world so decisively with their ideas and inventions.


A Very Short History of the World (2007)

Geoffrey Blainey Quotes

In the history of European peoples the city of Washington is perhaps what Constantinople - the infant city of Emperor Constantine - was to the last...

In the history of European peoples the city of Washington is perhaps what Constantinople - the infant city of Emperor Constantine - was to the last...

In the history of European peoples the city of Washington is perhaps what Constantinople - the infant city of Emperor Constantine - was to the last...

In the history of European peoples the city of Washington is perhaps what Constantinople - the infant city of Emperor Constantine - was to the last...