“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.” YearsFirstsCountryGovernmentSpiritFourChangedThousandSucceedSeriesInjusticeThousand YearsConquest Author:Ezra Stiles
“Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?” ShouldYearsMindHas BeensDreamLastsTeachFourLessonsThousandActivityJudgmentOperationsThousand YearsTribesSuspendedDormant Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think
“A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.” WayWritingYearsLiteratureKnowingFourWrittenYouthThousandCuriousThousand YearsMaidensSenility Author:John Barth
“I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsYearsFourThousandYears AgoNuclearCodeThousand YearsDinosaursPalin Author:Matt Damon
“Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.” PeopleShouldYearsHumansMayFacesFourChangedThousandPerfectionOriginalsSpeciesDetermineHeightThousand YearsAspireDiminishApprehensionBarbarismHuman SpeciesRelapse Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It is really appropriate to call Jesus the word because God spoke him into existence through dozens probably a hundred different people over a four thousand year period of time. The Holy Spirit took these words and impregnated Mary.” PeopleYearsDifferentSpiritJesusExistenceFourPeriodsHolyThousandHundredHoly SpiritAppropriateSpokesDozenMaryThousand YearsDifferent Peoples Author:Andrew Wommack