Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began. — Margo Kingston
Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able… — Ryan Bingham
In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and… — William Wordsworth
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our… — Winston Churchill
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or… — Blaise Pascal
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. — Benjamin Franklin
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. — Newt Gingrich
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the… — Joan Collins
I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. — Lauren Conrad
It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back. — Andrew Cuomo
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again. — Andrew Cuomo
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which… — Stockwell Day
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle
You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind… — King Edward VIII
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of… — Queen Elizabeth II
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire. — Marianne Faithfull
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with… — Robert Harris
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of… — James Hillman
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally… — Abbie Hoffman

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