Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
All empires are created of blood and fire.
Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.
As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.
Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.
The history of empires is the history of human misery.
I recognize no empire of this present age.
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.
The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.
It is neither holy, Roman or an 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.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour.