Empires Quote by Cardinal Richelieu Download Open image “A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.” — Cardinal Richelieu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empires Language Lost Single word Sometimes
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after battle but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The military failure of the old empire was subsequently not mourned as an outward loss but celebrated as an inward gain.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Empire, in Hobsbawm’s evocative words, was ‘so easily won, so narrowly based, so absurdly easily ruled thanks to the devotion of a few… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Create a position that an enemy and haters will lose when you disappear, then name it empire” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who dreams dreams, and is prepared topay the price to make them come true. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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