Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.
The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held our nation in their grip for decades and that the only real solution to such woes is libertarianism.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.
We don't seek empires. We're not imperialistic.
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
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.
Utterly absorbing. . . . If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.