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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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 
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Arthur Henderson
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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin
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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.
William Blake
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No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
James Larkin
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The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Joseph Sobran
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