The American empire should be destroyed.

“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.”

— Pierce Brown

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction…

— Edward Gibbon

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

— Mohsen Rezaee

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

— Nouriel Roubini

Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as…

— John Perkins

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts…

— Howard Zinn

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support…

— Oliver Ellsworth

The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been an International…

— William Blum

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought…

— Alexander Hamilton

New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its…

— Bernard DeVoto

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

— John Malkovich

My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

— Edward Dyer

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte