Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records… — Henry Rollins
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European… — John Shimkus
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand… — Queen Victoria
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out… — Johan Galtung
We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall… — Romano Prodi
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the… — Dennis Hastert
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire,… — John Boyd Orr
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. — James Theodore Bent
All empire is no more than power in trust. — John Dryden
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has… — Edward Said
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind… — George Washington
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know… — Edward Forbes
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule the lesser species… — Stephen Colbert
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a… — Isaac Asimov
Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin… — Robert E. Lee
At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down Londonâ€™s mall for Queen Victoriaâ€™s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain… — Mark Steyn
Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. — Chris Johnson

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