Quotes About Empire

Chosroes was murdered by his own side early in 628.

The whole of the Middle East, up to the River Tigris, was returned to Roman rule.

mere forty years after the death of Basil II, Byzantium found itself faced with new and aggressive enemies

The campaign that cost Julian his life was part of a series of wars on the empire's eastern frontier

Heraclius became the first ruler of a 'Roman' empire to revive the long-disused Greek word for 'king', basileus.

But in 1500 BCE, they are not ruled directly from Hattusa.

This is the kingdom of the Hittites.

Constantinople was now the largest and richest city in Europe

Modern historians regularly use the word empire to describe this extension of Athenian power during the fifth century

the Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.

The dynasty he founded, the Mauryans, would go on to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent.

At the time of Constantine's deathbed baptism in 337, the overwhelming majority of his subjects were still pagans.

if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

War was not dependent on personal volition; it was an unceasing imperial project, authorized by Islam.

Of all Ottoman innovations none was perhaps more significant than the creation of a regular army.

Each mason was assigned two helpers, one to work each side of him, and was held responsible for the construction of a fixed quantity of wall per day. Discipline was overseen by a force of kadis (judges), gathered from across the empire, who had the power of capital punishment; enforcement and military protection was provided by a substantial army detachment.

In early April, while the big guns were busy pounding the land walls, Mehmet began to deploy the fleet, his other new weapon, for the first time.

Only two months after the battle he wrote a sad description of his own fate: "I spend my time building castles in the air, but in the end all of them, and I, blow away in the end." It is an epitaph that might serve all the empire builders of the violent century.

He feared its potential to furnish a cause for endless war with Christian powers in the future. Captured, it would provide the centerpiece of the empire, "without it, or while it is as at present, nothing we have is safe, and we can hope for nothing additional.

There's an end-of-empire atmosphere about Burgess; of high Victorian imperialism fading away in a remote outpost.

In little more than ten years St. Paul established the Church in .four provinces of the Empire, Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia and Asia.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

Critics become criminals since truth is anathema to an empire or any authoritarian government that depends on lies for its existence. The informant who provides the people with the truth cannot be protected by whistle-blower laws or the Constitution. It is the truth-tellers who are sent to prison or are killed while those who undermine our Constitution are promoted. This lasts until the corrupt government is dismantled.

Secrecy is paramount for the government and privacy is lost for the citizens during wars as well. Everyone is a suspect and liberty protections are ignored by the empire. The excuse is always that restricting liberty is required to make the people safe from enemies, seldom seen and identified but ever-present and demonized.