Lena Andersson Quotes

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

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

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.

When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.

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.

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

Every empire eventually falls.

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

These different blocs in the Turkish Empire...always conspired against Turkey; because of the hostility of these native peoples, Turkey has lost province after province - Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Egypt, and Tripoli. In this way, the Turkish Empire has dwindled almost to nothing.

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

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.

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.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

How is the Empire?

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

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

For any imperial policy to work effectively...it needs moral and intellectual guidance...It is much to be doubted that the United States can continue to play an imperial role without the endorsement of its intellectual class...

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

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

The United States although a superpower was never an empire..

From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this is very clear. Like every other western empire that has ever existed, Americans may claim to have inherited the mantle of ancient Rome.

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

There seems to be no end of books about the British empire, and the fascination it holds for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.