Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call,… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps -… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack… — Alcibiades Copy Share Image