Empire Quotes

Rise up like the empires before. Tell tales of great obstacles overcome. Show others their true glory; and tell them it’s never over, it’s only just begun.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

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

I have done many impious things–no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

Advice? I don’t offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.