Quotes About Empire

But what really sealed Britain's fate were similar attacks on the other side of the empire.

in AD 286 it was split

a western half comprising Italy, Spain, Gaul and Britain,

and an eastern half that included the Balkans, Greece, Palestine and Egypt.

creating a new kingdom called Dal Riata – a maritime empire

and by the end of the fifth century they had conquered three-quarters of the old Roman province,

everybody living in the empire was considered a Roman citizen,

whatever their ancestry – assumed all this would last forever, for the empire was eternal.

and decided to mark the northern limit of the empire by building his famous wall,

which stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and was studded with forts along its seventy-three-mile length

north of the River Rhine and the River Danube, and west of the River Vistula.

So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear, Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne; As Man ere long, and this new World shall know. Thus

If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the debtor is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this happens, then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes one or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as oil or the Panama Canal. Of course, the debtor still owes us the money—and another country is added to our global empire.

Fear and debt. The two most powerful tools of empire." He

Fear and debt. The two most powerful tools of empire... Most everybody thinks military might is the driver of empire, but war's important because it--and the threat of it--instills fear. People are terrified into parting with their money. They take on more debt... Whether we owe money or favors, debt shackles us. That's why the economic hit man approach is so effective. More so than war.

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During World War I, Paul Starrett formed Starrett & Goss, which built steamships for the government. By the time Starrett Bros. & Eken was formed in 1922, Paul had already built Macy's to the designs of De Lemos & Cordes; Pennsylvania Station and the Main Post Office to the designs of McKim, Mead & White; and Warren & Wetmore's Biltmore Hotel, where the meeting with the Empire State's directors would decide their fate.

Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn't he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.)

The dregs of Romulus.

I am a Roman citizen.

A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.

Ni Alejandro, ni Aníbal, ni siquiera Julio César habían luchado en un terreno tan amplio e inhóspito. Carlomagno habría tenido que duplicar sus victorias para igualar las de Bolívar. Napoleón, en su lucha por construir un imperio, había cubierto menos terreno que Bolívar en su campaña por conquistar la libertad[3].