When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this… — John Burgoyne Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. — Filip Dewinter Copy Share Image
All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone.… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
