In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, -… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I don't mind that if I ever star in movies, they'll likely be mine. That's okay, because my great role models -… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no… — Chalmers Johnson 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
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall. — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within. — Lionel Copy Share Image
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished. — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
