I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image