154 Quotes About Empires

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.

Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...