Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I've toppled empires. I can figure out how to get water to the right temperature.” — S.E. Anderson Copy Share Image
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it. — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox; really, it makes one sad. How sad that the president of… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the… — Dennis Hastert 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
Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
