#empire

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

#did #empire #forget #i #i want you

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#chinese #civil #civil government #empire #even

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. ↗

— John Malkovich

#i #run #want

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

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

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#breach #called #confidence #down #empire

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#diminished #easily #edges #empire #great

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. ↗

— King Hussein I

#dotted #empires #every #great #haunting

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long. ↗

— Dave Rowntree

#album #another #anything #back #before

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#am #became #christianity #empire #execution