The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West. — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty… — Jerry Springer 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
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