Quotes About Empire

To Romans I set no boundary in space or time. I have granted them dominion, and it has no end.

At puer Ascanius, cui nunc cognomen Iulo additur,---Ilus erat, dum res stetit Ilia regno,--- triginta magnos volvendis mensibus orbis imperio explebit, regnumque ab sede Lavini transferet, et longam multa vi muniet Albam.

Nascetur pulchra Troianus origine Caesar, imperium oceano, famam qui terminet astris,--- Iulius, a magno demissum nomen Iulo.

Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as it gets into the woodwork - sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics, and little trifles that had been essays a column long were now encyclopaedias in ten or twenty volumes.

una buena parte de ese espíritu de servicio público, de imperio británico, de reforma tributaria, de espíritu de la clase gobernante

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

They gave it the seductive name Al Fatat—"Young Girl."* Its aim was the liberation of the Arab world from Turkey's Ottoman Empire. More important, it represented the first manifestation of a renascent Arab nationalism that disputed Jewish claims to Palestine for half a century.

Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the men lose more and more things they never owned in the first place.

under the command of the two Portuguese commanders.

Da Gama received a royal appointment as viceroy of India

made him pilot major; he then received an ambitious new commission to claim the Spice Islands for Spain.

the authorities in that distant outpost of the Spanish empire found a Portuguese caravel that had wandered into the Caribbean.

long and checkered history in the service of the Portuguese empire in Africa: Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan.

the Armada de Molucca was at last ready to conquer the ocean.

Dee contemplated extending the English sphere of influence across the globe.

the five ships comprising the Armada de Molucca in Brazil showed how porous and vulnerable the Portuguese

new economic possibilities for any European nation able to master the seas.

And he was the first person to use the term "British Empire" to describe his vision.

rather than establishing their own foreign trading empires.

Portugal was the first European nation to exploit the sea for spices and the global empire that went along with them.

And then another conquest began-that of the British.

In London in the 1980s some migrants from former British colonies in the Caribbean responded to racist attacks with a powerful slogan: "We are here because you were there.

In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. Although people usually know what they have sown, our national experience of blowback is seldom imagined in such terms because so much of what the managers of the American empire have sown has been kept secret.

Even an empire cannot control the long-term effects of its policies. That is the essence of blowback.