EMPIRE

Related Subjects: Imperialism, Kings

1. What are your empires but brigandage and rapine?—ST. AUGUSTINE
   

2. Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,
   Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.—BYRON, The Age of Bronze
   

3. The only way to save our empires from the encroachment of the people is to engage in war, and thus substitute national passions for social aspirations.—CATHERINE THE GREAT
   

4. The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.—JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN
   

5. It is not their long reigns, nor their frequent changes which occasion the fall of empires, but their abuse of power.—GEORGE CRABBE
   

6. All empire is no more than power in trust.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
   

7. The Napoleonic Empire itself was no more than neutral ground for men of the most, diverse ideas, a useful bridge to people who climbed out of the revolutionary floodwaters, and ran to and fro upon it for twenty years undecided whether to land on the right banks of contemporary opinion.—HEINE
   

8. Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendor.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

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

10. As a general truth, nothing is more opposed to the well-being and freedom of men, than vast empires.—DE TOCQUEVILLE