#empire

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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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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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

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If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#charles #days #empire #everything #right

All for Australia and the Empire. ↗

— Joseph Lyons

#empire

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #run #want

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

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A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat. ↗

— James Pinckney Miller

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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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

— John Boyd Orr

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