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• Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Heart, People

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• If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, Ignorant, Facts

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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

  Trying, Bars, Soap

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• It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Evil, Important, Hawks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

  Toni Braxton

  Want, Serious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Passed Away, Nations, Small Nations

  Speech at Birmingham, 12 May 1904, in 'The Times' 13 May 1904

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• It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Rome, America, United States

  "Islam versus the West". Interview with Amanda Griscom-Little, www.rollingstone.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

  Aristotle

  Educational, Fate, Youth

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Tombstone, Lying, Fighting

  The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Son, Men, White Man

  "The White Man's Burden" st. 1 (1899)

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• Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

  Edward Thorndike

  Wise, Wisdom, Fall

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• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Wind

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

  Dennis Hastert

  Leadership, People, Imagination

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• The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Doubt, World

  "Market failures" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Military, Congratulations

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

  Mitt Romney

  Confidence, Wall, Evil

  "Never Retreat, Never Apologize" by David Weigel, www.slate.com. July 25, 2012.

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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

  Years, Execution, Good Christian

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• An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson

  Democracy, Invisible, Form

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

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  Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Historical, Truth Is

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, April 30, 2008.

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• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

  John Boyd Orr

  Rivals, Defeat, Fallen

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

  Tacitus

  Peace, War, Wilderness

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• The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

  Dave Barry

  Historical, Literature, Roman Civilization

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• The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

  Edward Bond

  Punishment, Literature, Bores

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• In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  May, Way, Ends

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• Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

  Robert Trout

  Today, Never Forget, Defeat

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