Empires Quotes - Page 2

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  J. William Fulbright

  Peace, War, America

  "Fulbright: The Dissenter". Book by Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, 1968.

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• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Waiting, Doe

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• I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

  Paul Verlaine

  Ends, Decadence

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

  Dean Acheson

  History, Roles, Losing

  Speech at U.S. Military Academy,West Point, N.Y., 5 Dec. 1962

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• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  Felix Dennis

  Bullying, America, Definitions

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• 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.

  Doris Lessing

  Girl, Ideas, Ends

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• No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

  Pythagoras

  Pythagoras (2013). “The Golden Verses of Pythagoras”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Adventure, Greatness, Great Things

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• Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

  John Boyd Orr

  Civilization, Unity, Age

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• The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be

  Mark Bittman

  Evil, Meat, Littles

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• An empire is an immense egotism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Egotism, Immense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.364

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• That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

  Amelia Barr

  Kings, Mistake, Moving

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.170, Litres

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• Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Yesterday, America

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address to the Congress Asking That a State of War Be Declared Between the United States and Japan, www.loc.gov. December 8, 1941.

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• Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

  Jose Saramago

  Latin, Ambition, America

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  With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

  Genghis Khan

  Heaven, Tasks, World

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• On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

  Eliot Engel

  War, Two, World

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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

  Fighting, Men, Race

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• The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Libertarian Party, Liberty

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• The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

  Meir Kahane

  Kings, Heart, People

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• Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one Pandæan, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Catholic Religion, Doubt, World

  Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

  John Boyd Orr

  Appreciate, Arms, Territory

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• Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

  Seneca the Younger

  Insecure, Land, Tyrants

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• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  Barbara Amiel

  Military, Technology, People

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• Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Flags, Weight, Republic

  Imperialism (Flag of an Empire), delivered 8 August 1900, Indianapolis, IN

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Freedom, Light, Two

  "Essays on Goethe (Goethe's Works)". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1888.

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