#empire

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

#because #become #build #chicken #does

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#founded #itself #maintain #war

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

— John Boyd Orr

#conquest #defeat #either #empires #fallen

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

#between #civilization #empires #new #new age

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#approval #arms #been #empires #force

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#berkeley #corporate #empires #hackers #liked

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#brits #comfortable #empire #had #i

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#drained #empire #great #idlers #into