American Empire Quotes

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

They died for the greed of the oil cartels, for the expansion of the American empire, for the political ambitions of the President. They died to cover up the theft of the nation’s wealth for the machines of death.

As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.

…the only alternative to the communist World Empire is an American Empire, which will be, if not literally worldwide in formal boundaries, capable of exercising decisive world control.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

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

Our army is really an imperial army…. We used to wonder why British imperialists went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Vietnam was God’s instrument for bringing the American empire to its knees.

Sir, our natural boundary is the Pacific Ocean. The swelling tide of our population must and will roll on until that mighty ocean interposes its waters, and limits our territorial empire.

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

I'll take the American empire any day over the empire of … "Islamic fascism." I'm not against fighting this enemy — it is an enemy and I'm not a pacifist.

America has been an empire ever since Theodore Roosevelt.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

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

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American 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 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.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.