I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wars' fan. And so… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire… — Boris Brasol 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
Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy… — Mychal Thompson Copy Share Image
I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet,… — Anne Ellis Copy Share Image
And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin'… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was… — Augustus Copy Share Image
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