Empires Quotes

Winston Churchill came closest to describing the conflict's immensity and importance when he called it the first world war, with the prize being the eastern half of North America... The war brought about a shift that opened a four-decade-long overture to an age of empires and revolutions that endured from the mid-18th century until the beginning of the 20th. - Fred Anderson

White laborers known for their enterprise, their diligence, their economy, which builds up new empires in the West. - David Wilmot

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit. - Robert Burns

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries. - Javier Bardem

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940sI love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished. during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war. - Ken Mehlman

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. - Edward Gibbon

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. - John Boyd Orr

This is the only place where two empires were making face-to-face contact. - Mike Moseley