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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

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

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.

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

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.

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

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

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

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour.

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

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

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

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

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

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

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