Darth vader Quote by George Lucas

How is the Empire?

— King George V

How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort…

— Mark Danner

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

— Noah Feldman

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism…

— Earl Warren

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

— Felix Morley

“A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open…

— Ronald Syme

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

— Anna Howard Shaw

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

— Andrew Johnson

“More recently, Lucas described a visit in Europe, after the release of Revenge of the Sith, “with a dozen reporters, and the Russian correspondents…

— Cass R. Sunstein

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

— Thucydides