Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history… — William Blake Copy Share Image
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
. If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
If centralism is ultimately to prevail; if our entire system of free Institutions as established by our common ancestors is to be… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call,… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
