In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by… — Marshall Fritz Copy Share Image
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war… — John Amery Copy Share Image
All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him… — John Owen Copy Share Image