#empire

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

— Paul Verlaine

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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#american #american empire #being #biggest #empire

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#death #empires #sacrifice #death

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

If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

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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

#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

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