Empires Quotes - Page 6

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

... All questions concerning the rise of Christianity are one: How was it done? How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers - no one thing led to the triumph of Christianity.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

I have my fashion empire to build.

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

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.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.