Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. Votes: 3
Jared DiamondThe Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. Votes: 3
Robert KiyosakiThe English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Votes: 3
Edward BondFrom the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. Votes: 3
F. Scott FitzgeraldCharlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. Votes: 3
Robert BenchleyCan't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. Votes: 3
Oswald MosleyAll is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!. Votes: 3
Henry VIII of EnglandRome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. Votes: 3
Chris JohnsonI would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. Votes: 3
Nick HornbyIf one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... Votes: 3
Joseph BrodskyIf we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. Votes: 3
Pat BuchananIt is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can Votes: 3
Stafford CrippsI have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use. Votes: 3
Qin Shi HuangI'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff. Votes: 3
Jeremy Allen WhiteThe gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. Votes: 3
Winston ChurchillIf overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. Votes: 3
Dan QuisenberryBritain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. Votes: 3
Tony BennI would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.' Votes: 3
CeeLo GreenI love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it. Votes: 3
Chris MessinaA great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Votes: 2
Benjamin FranklinI come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire. Votes: 0
Marianne FaithfullThe American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. Votes: 0
Michael MandelbaumI have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire... Votes: 0
ThucydidesThe splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. Votes: 0
John Lothrop MotleyThe evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism Votes: 0
Chris HedgesThe Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. Votes: 0
William WordsworthI definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. Votes: 0
Lauren ConradAt all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess. Votes: 0
Amit KalantriLong before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. Votes: 0
Robert PayneI hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. Votes: 0
Hugo ChavezI'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job Votes: 0
Nicole PolizziThe home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroMakers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. Votes: 0
Herbert KaufmanTo make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. Votes: 0
SolonThe Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries. Votes: 0
Henry A. KissingerWith the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West. Votes: 0
Bryan Ward-PerkinsIn every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. Votes: 0
James Theodore BentDeath! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. Votes: 0
Edward YoungYou really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. Votes: 0
Niall FergusonI think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire. Votes: 0
Marianne FaithfullHands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. Votes: 0
Thomas GrayWhenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. Votes: 0
Harry BrownePutin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonThe strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery. Votes: 0
Ronald SymeI'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career. Votes: 0
E-40I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. Votes: 0
Gary ShteyngartIf the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. Votes: 0
MenciusRight is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. Votes: 0
Amos Bronson AlcottThough we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs. Votes: 0
Martin LutherI have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. Votes: 0
Kublai KhanBy now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. Votes: 0
Barbara AmielThe demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. Votes: 0
Chalmers JohnsonEvery empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. Votes: 0
John OliverDown with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire! Votes: 0
Hugo ChavezYour pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. Votes: 0
Alan MooreAll dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. Votes: 0
Luke MontgomeryIf monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. Votes: 0
Daniel EllsbergMonarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. Votes: 0
Bias of PrieneHaters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating. Votes: 0
CM PunkDo not build a castle around one act of kindness; do not build an empire around one act of cruelty. Votes: 0
Paul BamikoleI will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown. Votes: 0
Bray WyattIf you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. Votes: 0
Robert D. KaplanTerrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. Votes: 0
Pat BuchananTruth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. Votes: 0
Jacques-Benigne BossuetI've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it. Votes: 0
Victoria BeckhamOn 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. Votes: 3 Gore Vidal
There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.' Votes: 5 Michael Shannon
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. Votes: 6 John Boyd Orr
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.' Votes: 3 Johan Galtung
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. Votes: 2 Steven Spielberg
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. Votes: 6 Don Rickles
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. Votes: 3 Don Rickles
I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. Votes: 3 Joss Whedon
The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be. Votes: 2 Mark Bittman