Great Empires Quotes
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.
It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.