#empire

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

#empire #evil #evil empire #hawk #his

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#empire #history #long #look #nation

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#above #been #bosses #democracy #designed

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size. ↗

— Fay Wray

#empire #empire state #high #his #king

When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him. ↗

— Fay Wray

#daughter #empire #empire state #feel #felt

It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#britain #british-empire #cold-war #conservative-party-uk #crisis

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#empire #fall #fast #last #like

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#crowns #empire #fought #higher #makers

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains. ↗

— Sam Walter Foss

#bring #empires #eras #match #me

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#does #empire #everywhere #existence #me