Empire breeds terrorism.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.
The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states.
In summer the empire of insects spreads.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.