"Great empires are not maintained by timidity." — Tacitus

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• Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United… — Margaret Atwood
• Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
• That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and… — Amelia Barr
• The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry
• I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I… — Victoria Beckham
• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire… — William Blake
• Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a… — William Jennings Bryan
• The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid… — James Buchan
• When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire… — Julie Burchill
• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
• America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no… — George W. Bush
• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler

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