All empires come to an end, and the American one is no…

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

— Joseph Chamberlain

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

In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire, I think…

— Anna Quindlen

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

— Joseph Chamberlain

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going…

— Mitch Kapor

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to…

— Howard Zinn

“Empires come and go, but playgrounds last forever.”

— Paul Kareem Tayyar

I think Americans suspect, without even being able to articulate it, that we're at the end of the American century; that we're at the…

— Anna Quindlen

For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of…

— Morris Berman

“American era is ending in part because a powerful group of Americans wants it to end. The American dream is shrinking because some of…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

— Jeannette Walls

“I think that we must come to the end of ourselves in order to understand that we are part of something much bigger than…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

— Claire Tomalin

“Everything must come to an end, you know!”

— Dr. Paul Reginald Siles