Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. . . . Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.
Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.
The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.