Pat Buchanan Quotes

Every empire eventually falls.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

Look at the history of empires. They come and they go. They ebb and they flow.

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

This [American] empire will not last. No empire does. If empires lasted, the whole world would be speaking ancient Persian today.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

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

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

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

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

America has never been an empire. … We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused.

Hegemony mean[t] that [Athens] organized and directed their combined efforts without securing permanent political power over the other[s].

The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

The enthusiasm for colonies is dead.

It is when empires begin to fall, that they tend to cause the most mayhem.

The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.

The war is going to end because we're gonna have such a political and financial havoc here with the devaluation of our dollar, because we just can't keep affording it. This is usually how empires end, by spending too much money maintaining their empire. We're in 130 countries, we have 700 bases around the world, and it's going to come to an end. I want it to come to an end more gracefully and peacefully, follow the constitution, and follow a more sensible foreign policy.

There must … be only one empire, one faith, and one sovereignty in the world.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

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