An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
I recognize no empire of this present age.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.