History Quote by Colin McEvedy

“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.”

— Anonymous

“The Empire is a force unprecedented in any age, poised to end history itself. No one should confront it alone.”

— Alexander Freed

“An empire that could have stood sound under a single sovereign was wrecked through being run by sundry rulers.”

— Andrew Chugg

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror.*”

— Adam Hochschild

“tyranny cannot stand forever. It is an ugly beast that must feed. Eventually, the Empire will devour everything it has, and will turn on…

— Christie Golden

“Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.”

— Janet Wallach

“The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields.…

— Raymond E. Feist

“It was a reign of minority, when the strongest had the best right, and when acts of usurpation were frequent amongst those who had…

— Walter Scott

“The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the…

— Andrew Lang

“only when the weak have decent reasons to defend the system that reproduces their subservience does the empire of the powerful”

— Yanis Varoufakis

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.”

— William J Federer