Top Empire Quotes
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
John Boyd Orr
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
John Lothrop Motley
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
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
James Theodore Bent
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Peter Jennings 
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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
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A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
James Pinckney Miller
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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.
Edward Everett
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
Joseph Howe
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.
John Perkins
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I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
Toni Braxton
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