Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again,…

— Karl Rove

If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

— Isoroku Yamamoto

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

— Carl Paladino

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call…

— Jim Cooper

The American empire should be destroyed.

— Aleksandr Dugin

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward Said

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

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

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

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

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these…

— Malcolm X