#empire

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

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

— Toni Braxton

#businesswoman #empire #her #i #money

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

#around #behold #beneath #bowed #empires

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama. ↗

— Joan Collins

#anything #british #british empire #drama #empire

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#death #empires #sacrifice #death

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

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

All for Australia and the Empire. ↗

— Joseph Lyons

#empire

In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if they had fallen asleep together in a deep dream of war. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#dreams

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. ↗

— William Morris Hughes

#cross #current #empire #like #once

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#go #great #ill #little #little minds