To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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 sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work… — George Washington 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
In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a… — Webster Tarpley Copy Share Image
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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