A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
John Lothrop Motley

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
William Jennings Bryan

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Eric S. Raymond

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Sam Walter Foss

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.
William Watson

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

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
Isaac Rosenberg

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
Sid Meier

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
Paul Harris

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
John Boyd Orr

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Charles de Montesquieu

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
King Hussein I

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
John Boyd Orr

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
Joseph Chamberlain