#empire

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. ↗

— Lord Harlech

#britain #disposed #empire #historians #honoured

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. ↗

— Paul Harris

#gates #ideas

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

#american people #captured #communist #countless #countless millions

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

#armies #between #british #british empire #building

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. ↗

— James Hillman

#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#empire #give #happy #make #pain

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

— Dave Barry

#empire #historical #just #like #now

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

— Edward Bond

#acquired #bores #empire #english #punishment

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

— Newt Gingrich

#empire #existed #fact #fairly #i

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#destroyer #empire #ethics #evil #i