Empire Quotes

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

Great, Cake, Edges

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Democracy, Special

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live, America, United

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Voltaire

Holy, Nor, Neither

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Evil, Confidence

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

Peace, Woman, America

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke

Politics, Great, Wisdom

Empire and liberty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Hugo Chavez

American, Biggest, Planet

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

Art, Science, Foundation

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Abbie Hoffman

Evil, Brother, Sister

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler

Beauty, Happy, Pain

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore Vidal

Become, American, Nation

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

Down, Hear, Coming

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich

Fact, Ignorant, Afford

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus

Peace, Call, Steal

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
James Hillman

Education, Everything, Different

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Great, London, Cesspool

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Success, Put, Purpose

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
Dave Barry

Period, Historical, Sixties

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.
Jerry Saltz

Someone, Thinking, Through

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Pythagoras

Free, Himself, Obtained

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
Pat Robertson

America, Running, Brits

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Publilius Syrus

Powerful, Indeed, Habit

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes

Ghost, Sitting, Grave

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
Doris Lessing

Girl, End, Idea

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
Doris Lessing

Best, Young, Old

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
Sienna Miller

Powerful, Far, Taking

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
Robert Collier

Power, Real, Self

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

War, Founded, Maintain

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