Empires Quotes

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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the… — Amelia Barr
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry
I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it. — Victoria Beckham
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice… — William Blake
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved… — William Jennings Bryan
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions… — George W. Bush
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free… — Thomas Carlyle
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And… — Benjamin Carson
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. — Hugo Chavez
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The… — Hugo Chavez
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. — Winston Churchill
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African… — John Henrik Clarke
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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