Century Quote by Adrian Goldsworthy

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very…

— Linda Colley

“The Western Empire, supported generation after generation by half a hundred of the strongest and most remarkable men in history, from Stilicho to Charlemagne,…

— R.A. Lafferty

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

— Gore Vidal

“Yet as the Angkor empire died, Cambodia lost its soul.”

— Joel Brinkley

The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount…

— J. G. Ballard

“The arrival of the Spaniards must have been like the arrival of people from Mars to us would be today. The shock must have…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Marco Polo had been to China; Vasco de Gama had discovered the route to the Cape. The continent was in ferment, in movement, whereas…

— Carlos Fuentes

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have…

— Moses Finley

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding…

— Donna Tartt

“An inscription, dating to the late fifth century B.C., forbids that anyone tan hides or throw litter into the Ilissos, further stipulating that no…

— Anonymous

“They, too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape, centuries dead; they'd had the experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and…

— donna tartt

“By the early fifth century the problem had become so acute that some theologians updated the church’s theology of witness so that they no…

— Alan Kreider

If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the…

— Milton R. Hunter

“Aramaic was spoken in certain regions of upper Egypt in the fifth century B.C.”

— James John Courtenay

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it…

— Rashida Jones