America Quote by Harry Browne

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness…

— George W. Bush

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

— Tariq Ali

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the…

— Felix Dennis

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but…

— Robert D. Kaplan

An empire is an immense egotism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

— Robert D. Kaplan

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

— John Rzeznik

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

— Michael Mandelbaum

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

— Pat Robertson

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain…

— Orson Scott Card

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people…

— Barack Obama