America Quote by Kevin Macdonald

The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist…

— Vladimir Lenin

“By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.”

— Peter Heather

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

— Publilius Syrus

America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.

— John F. Kerry

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

— Pyrrhus

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as…

— Immortal Technique

“vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world”

— Anthony Everitt

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one…

— John Berger

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and…

— Edward Gibbon

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

— Mary Beard

But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

— Joshua Chamberlain

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

— Ian Bremmer