I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. — Sallust Copy Share Image
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown. — Bray Wyatt Copy Share Image
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. — Herbert Kaufman Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom… — Nicolas Maduro Copy Share Image
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible. — Cao Cao Copy Share Image
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a… — Ben Hecht 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
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
America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin… — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the… — Walter Winchell Copy Share Image
When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. — Ken Dodd Copy Share Image
