Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. .… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was… — Augustus Copy Share Image
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end You could have it… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Territorial expansion demands warriors and, once population levels are stable, demotes the female role. Once religious empires have not just an idea… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
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