A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
James Pinckney Miller

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan

All for Australia and the Empire.
Joseph Lyons

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu

Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
John Perkins

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
Lord Harlech

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Ezra Stiles

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
Stockwell Day

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles

Empire and liberty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.
Dave Rowntree

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
Armstrong Williams

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson

How is the Empire?
King George V

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
Paul Verlaine