A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
James Pinckney Miller
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan
All for Australia and the Empire.
Joseph Lyons
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
John Perkins
Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
Lord Harlech
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Ezra Stiles
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.
Stockwell Day
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
Empire and liberty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.
Dave Rowntree
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
Armstrong Williams
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
How is the Empire?
King George V
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
Paul Verlaine
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