Empire Quotes

Empire Quote of the day

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none...so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all.

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

When I walk down the boardwalk,people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

The American empire should be destroyed.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.