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Tag Name "Empires" (559)

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The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.
Robert Manne
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
James Russell Lowell
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Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
Sherwin B. Nuland
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The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.
Howard Zinn
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We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
Mark Twain
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To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
John Knox
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No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
Pythagoras
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America is an empire that does not wish to be one we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.
Orson Scott Card
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
Hugo Chavez
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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
Blaise Pascal
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He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
Gaston Leroux
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I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.
Elizabeth Montagu
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There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.
Taylor Hanson
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I recognize no empire of this present age.
Paul Speratus
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The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held our nation in their grip for decades and that the only real solution to such woes is libertarianism.
Jacob G. Hornberger
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One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires - and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.
Thomas Sowell
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
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Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Britain, as a pop music nation, used to have this very 'empire' kind of attitude. We used to 'invade' the world with our bands, you know? That's obviously changed, because in Europe they're much more interested in bands speaking their own language. Especially in France and Germany. They're starting to develop their own bands much more.
James Dean Bradfield
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Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.
Matthew Yglesias
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It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction I love myself too well.
Michel de Montaigne
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Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.
Pat Buchanan
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