It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with… — James Dean Bradfield Copy Share Image
With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand,… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle,… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out… — William Wordsworth 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
I'm 33 and in my "Jesus year," and I want it all right now. I want a perfect body. I want to… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion… — Donald Kagan 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
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West 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
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously… — Fidel Castro 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
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
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
