Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! — Thomas Carlyle
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. — Oliver Goldsmith
Westward the star of empire takes its way. — John Quincy Adams
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so… — Andrew Greeley
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII of France
And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city… — James Harrington
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them,… — Brigham Young
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others,… — Marcus Garvey
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is neither holy, Roman or an empire. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade and even the… — Robert E. Howard
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. — Ozzy Osbourne
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall. — Al Stewart
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible. — Cao Cao
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous… — Sheri L. Dew
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. — Chris Avellone

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