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"The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly."
"The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society."
"If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth."
"The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire."
"If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore."
"I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross."
"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."
"It is neither holy, Roman or an empire."
"The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels."
"I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough."
"Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity."
"The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs."
"Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born."
"Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars."
"Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude."
"I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!"
"But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality."
"The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common."
"Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil."
"Empires and churches are born under the sun of death."
