#empire

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence. ↗

— Paul Verlaine

#decadence #empire #end #i #i am

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. ↗

— King Edward VIII

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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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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

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

— John Boyd Orr

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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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