Destroyed Quote by Lionel

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

— Erin Morgenstern

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

— John Boyd Orr

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal…

— John Boyd Orr

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and…

— Dar Williams

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

— Ralph Nader

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on…

— Niall Ferguson

“Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation.…

— Henry Kissinger

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

— Donald Rumsfeld