"Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire."
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"The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States."
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"As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it."
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"I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire."
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"I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting."
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"Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution."
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"Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey."
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"I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself."
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"So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top."
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"[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect."
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"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern."
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"I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?"
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"To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist."
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