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• Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

  Robert Trout

  Today, Never Forget, Defeat

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• Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

  Robert Collier

  Life, Real, Self

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

  Niall Ferguson

  Struggle, Successful, Debtors

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Sometimes, Lost, Single Word

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• The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Writing, Class, Cities

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• All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

  Donald Kagan

  Ignorance, Past, America

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• America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

  George W. Bush

  Ambition, Patriotic, Men

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

  Conrad Veidt

  Jealousy, Mother, Brother

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• In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

  John Boyd Orr

  Government, Gunpowder, Warfare

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• Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

  Stockwell Day

  Canada, Cabinets, Century

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• You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

  King Edward VIII

  Country, Kings, Years

  Broadcast, 11 Dec. 1936, in The Times 12 Dec. 1936

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• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Love, Tired, Hollywood

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• However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Powerful, Military, War

  "Deal or dud: How will history judge Iran agreement?" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Come back with your shield - or on it

  Plutarch

  Greek, Sparta, Shields

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• The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

  Robert Trout

  India, Use, Ugly

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• My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

  Joseph Barbera

  Fall, Lasts, Roman Civilization

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Lying, Long, Culture

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12

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• Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Would Be

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.610, Pearson Education

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• The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fate, Birth Rate, Firsts

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• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

  Ezra Stiles

  Government, Two, People

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• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

  Barbara Amiel

  Europe, Unions, Gains

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• ... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.

  Franz Halder

  Military, Historical, Germany

  Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr

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• It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  People, Doe, Stakes

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• I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, States, Empire State

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• I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

  Sid Meier

  Respect, Games, Play

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