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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

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.


Simon Hoggart


#dinner party #formal #funeral #imperial #japanese

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.


Kim Il-sung


#countries #dependent #dispel #expose #false

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.


Shimon Peres


#addition #age #become #bomb #century

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.


Nikita Khrushchev


#america #colonial #colonies #crying #fact

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.


Nikita Khrushchev


#comes #imperialism

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.


Henry A. Wallace


#america #american #because #buy #countries

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.


Karl Liebknecht


#creation #group #imperialism #states

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.


Karl Liebknecht


#milieu #national #present #self-defense #wars

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.


Paul Wolfowitz


#antithetical #better #better off #different #empire






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