Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His… — Jerry Bridges
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! — Elif Batuman
There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes… — Glenn Greenwald
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a… — Thomas Hutchinson
A great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
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
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. — David Irving
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Who Wrote These Empire Quotes

452 authors contributed a total of 599 Empire Quotes, led by these top contributors: