Empire Quote by Christopher Lascelles

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with…

— John Perkins

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…

— Ann Leckie

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did.…

— Tom Shales

“Voltaire, rightly commented that it was ‘neither Holy, nor Roman nor an Empire’.”

— Christopher Lascelles

“For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.”

— Jack Weatherford

“All events and people are set in place for special souls to enter this world at a certain place and time. They follow a…

— Joan Singleton

In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first…

— Dan Coats

While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the…

— Sam Kutesa

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

— Dick Cheney

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign: The northern countries of Europe…

— Edward Gibbon

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for…

— Harris L Coulter

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction…

— Edward Gibbon

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

— Edward Gibbon

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years…

— Winston Churchill