No, the Empire needed to be fought. It had to be resisted.

We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair.

— Beau Biden

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Edward Dyer

“I got tired of constantly watching shrewd little bullies like you walk around like you mean something, like you’re better than the people that…

— Christopher Rankin

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

— John Malkovich

“What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because it is…

— Graham Harman

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were…

— Ryan Bingham

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…

— Ann Leckie

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;…

— Dave Gibbons

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

“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the…

— John Bagot Glubb

“Naughty business, this Empire.”

— Chuck Wendig

In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the…

— Robert Dallek

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying…

— Rudrangshu Mukherjee