Best Empire Qoutes
599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors
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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
— Toni Morrison
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But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally…
— Noah Webster
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Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to…
— Ronald Reagan
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...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.
— David Irving
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For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly…
— Norman Mailer
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Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't…
— Quentin Crisp
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the…
— William Blake
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little…
— Barbara Amiel
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His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than…
— Barack Obama
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Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion…
— Winston Churchill
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I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of…
— Winston Churchill
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One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be…
— Winston Churchill
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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered…
— Winston Churchill
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Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land…
— Scott Anderson
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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
— Woodrow Wilson
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Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly…
— Robert Fisk
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When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business…
— Richard Branson
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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 an…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but…
— Edward Said
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The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism
— Chris Hedges
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It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.
— Glenn Greenwald
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