Failure Quote by Louisa Thomsen Brits

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

— Anthony Everitt

“When the conquests stopped, the empire moved into a steady state or, more bluntly, it stagnated.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“The Empire Never Ended”

— Philip K. Dick

“Somehow, the remaining factions of the Empire are still fueling their war effort even months after the destruction of their second battle station.”

— Chuck Wendig

“THE ANCIENT ROMANS were used to being defeated. Like the rulers of most of history’s great empires, they could lose battle after battle but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.”

— Michael Kazin

“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to…

— Jim Butcher

“The Empire must fall.”

— Chuck Wendig

“The Empire is a force unprecedented in any age, poised to end history itself. No one should confront it alone.”

— Alexander Freed

“One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Ironically, their shocking success also awakened the very forces that eventually would marginalize them within the empire they had created.”

— Sven Beckert