Empire Quotes

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.

Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquests. The fifty million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. Europe is in a predicament, and so is America. They should agree to become Islamic in the course of time, or else declare war on the Muslims.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

Now we must smash Japan. We must carry the war to every part of her empire no matter how remote.

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert they call it peace.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

Mexicans, I die with honour, and not as a traitor. That stain I will not bequeath to my children and their posterity; I am not a traitor, no.

The whole of Britain’s international trading system, foreign policy and even Britain’s various conflicting political parties were maintained for one reason; and for one reason alone – that the money power of the world may rule the British people and through them they may rule mankind.

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

There is no nation on earth that wasn’t built on a conquest.

Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit And work another's gain. Take up the White Man's burden— The savage wars of peace— Fill All the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease.

I want Cuba ... I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason -- for the planting and spreading of slavery

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

His Majesty’s dominions, on which the sun never sets.

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

Attila was a man born to shake the races of the world. The proud man’s power has to be seen in the very movements of his body.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

Germany is a young and growing empire. She has a worldwide commerce which is rapidly expanding, and to which the legitimate ambition of patriotic Germans refuses to assign any bounds. Germany must have a powerful fleet to protect that commerce and her manifold interests in even the most distant seas. She expects those interests to go on growing, and she must be able to champion them manfully in any quarter of the globe. Her horizons stretch far away.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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

It is the curse of greatness that one must step over dead bodies to create new life

By the blood that flows in my veins and upon my honor, I swear to God to free Brazil!

The Russian Czars did a great deal that was bad. They robbed and enslaved the people. They waged wars and seized territories in the interest of landowners. But they did one thing that was good—they amassed an enormous state.

There can be no friends more benevolent than the British.