#empire

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#empire #evil #evil empire #exist #life

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. ↗

— Paul Harris

#gates #ideas

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#armies #between #british #british empire #building

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#empire #existed #fact #fairly #i

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. ↗

— Harry Browne

#become #being #empire #i #ridiculous

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

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

— J. William Fulbright

#empire #high #price #soul #too

All for Australia and the Empire. ↗

— Joseph Lyons

#empire

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #empires #great #great things #sovereigns