Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did,… — Roma Tearne Copy Share Image
Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us,… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It… — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas,… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to… — Violet Trefusis Copy Share Image
An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee… — Peter Adamson 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
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. — David Irving Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
