Empire Quotes

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. (Abbie Hoffman)
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. View quote
Edmund Burke
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. View quote
Garrison Keillor
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. View quote
Dean Acheson
To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace. View quote
Tacitus
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading I would spurn them all. View quote
François Fénelon
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. View quote
William Blake
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. (Hugo Chávez)
This body, which was called and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was not Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. View quote
Voltaire
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. View quote
Ron Paul
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. View quote
Cicero
All empire is no more than power in trust. View quote
John Dryden
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. View quote
William Blake
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. View quote
J. William Fulbright
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. View quote
Walter Scott
I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. (Winston Churchill)
It makes one sad to see the sell-out of President Fox; really, it makes one sad. How sad that the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy dog of the empire. View quote
Hugo Chávez
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. View quote
Adam Smith
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire. View quote
John Ralston Saul
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson