Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend… — Stephen Kinzer
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of… — J. G. Ballard
The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are… — Michael Leunig
I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American… — Cindy Sheehan
Every empire eventually falls. — Michael Douglas
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we… — Antony Beevor
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due… — Cory Booker
I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. — Mo Ibrahim
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this… — Jim Cooper
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a… — Oliver Ellsworth
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon became sensible of… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis
I am now a commander of the British Empire. — Kevin Spacey
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it. — Richard Flanagan
I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the… — Benedict Wong
Empire and liberty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
How is the Empire? — King George V
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of… — Joseph Howe
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the… — Neville Chamberlain
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America… — Arthur Henderson
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our… — Billy Hughes
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people… — John Perkins
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India,… — Robert Trout
If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands… — Henry Cabot Lodge

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