Quotes About Empire

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.

The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child born in Nigeria was sat among them, was similarly missing from the curriculum.

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the 'history of the British empire.'

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

Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.

The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.

man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off.

Solzhenitsyn emerged from the grinding misery of the gulag as a fearless man of God whose prophetic witness to the world helped bring down an evil empire.

The 'Persian Wars', as the two campaigns of 490 BCE and 480–479 BCE have been known ever since, were over.

There was never a political entity of that name until 1821, when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised

when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised the flag of revolution

Victory over Athens simply replaced a much-resented Athenian empire with a Spartan one that would soon be resented

This had the effect of bringing the Roman legions into the southern

They found themselves up against the new satraps sent to the region by the victorious Artaxerxes.

the 'decline and fall of the Roman empire' began with the death of Marcus

After the death of Commodus in 192 CE, civil war and empire-wide chaos lasted

224 CE, a new Persian dynasty, the Sassanids, came to power.

Pompey went on to roll up what little was left of the Seleucid kingdom of Asia three years later

The situation facing Byzantium in the mid-1090s was not so much desperate as catastrophic.

not even this was enough to prevent a Persian expeditionary force from fighting its way through Anatolia towards the capital in 615.

If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.

the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8

Constantinople had been saved, and with it the Greek-speaking Roman Empire.