If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no… — John Newton Copy Share Image
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour. — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone.… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast… — James Theodore Bent Copy Share Image
Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV -… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
