Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave. — William Habington Copy Share Image
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. — Kublai Khan Copy Share Image
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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