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Tag Name "Empires" (559)

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Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.
William J. Clinton
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The empire of custom is most mighty.
Publilius Syrus
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This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.
Peter Adamson
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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
Winston Churchill
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Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.
Gail Carriger
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The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
Chalmers Johnson
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Westward the course of empire takes its way The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.
George Berkeley
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One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.
Frank Schaeffer
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I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!
Elif Batuman
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New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
Walter Tevis
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
Paul Verlaine
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Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.
Friedrich Engels
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An empire is an immense egotism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
Newt Gingrich
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Edward Young
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Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
Aristotle
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No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
John Adams
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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
Jean Paul
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
Benjamin Franklin
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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
Robert Trout
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
James Buchan
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