Empires Quote by Bernard DeVoto

The truth is that there wasn't much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We…

— DJ Yella

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

— Townsend Harris

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that`s in our American interests. It`s its good that the West is…

— Daniel Fried

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness…

— George W. Bush

The United States did not earn its reputation as leader of the free world by standing back and allowing darker forces to prevail.

— Mike Quigley

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

— Robert D. Kaplan

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been…

— Andre Malraux

After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely viewed, at…

— Richard A. Falk

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

— John Rzeznik

Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American…

— Matthew Yglesias

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying…

— Samuel P. Huntington