American revolution Quote by Edmund Burke

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

— Edmund Burke

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made…

— Abraham Coles

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit…

— Adam Smith

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

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you…

— Quentin Crisp

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

— George Washington

“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made them realize…

— Christopher Morley

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound…

— John Locke

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

— Ovid

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It…

— Edmund Burke

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. —PUBLIUS SYRUS”

— Ryan Holiday