Mark Rutte Quotes

The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

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.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

This is a hard country to defend.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

How is the Empire?

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

Every empire eventually falls.

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Take care always to remember that you are a Roman.... Have a care you are not too much of a Caesar!

For Carolina once ruined and destroyed, the extermination of her [England's] colonial dependencies will follow.

Rome shall not rule America.

Whereas the British were generally quite open about the fact that they were running an empire, few Americans politicians today would use the “e” word as anything other than a term of abuse.

We are the Romans of the modern world—the great assimilating people.