Quotes about empire




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"Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role."

Acheson, Dean on empire    Share


"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."

Aristotle on empire
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"Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites."

Betjeman, John on empire    Share

"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."

Blake, William on empire    Share

"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."

Byron, Lord on empire    Share

"The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come."

Chamberlain, Joseph on empire    Share

"Empire and liberty."

Cicero, Marcus T. on empire    Share

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it."

Conrad, Joseph on empire    Share

"An empire is an immense egotism."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on empire    Share

"If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind."

Gladstone, William E. on empire    Share

"Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield."

Hughes, William Morris on empire    Share

"How is the Empire?"

King George V on empire    Share

"And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Kipling, Rudyard on empire    Share

"Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need."

Kipling, Rudyard on empire    Share

"The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on empire    Share

"The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."

Mckinley, William on empire    Share

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"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

Seeley, Sir John Robert on empire    Share

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"Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure."

Seneca on empire    Share

"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on empire    Share

"Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain."

Sizoo, Joseph R. on empire    Share

"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers."

Smith, Adam on empire    Share

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on empire    Share

"Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low."

Virgil on empire    Share

"There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavor and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbor in the end."

Ward, Dame Barbara on empire    Share

"Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might."

Waugh, Evelyn on empire    Share

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