Imperial Politics Quotes

There can be no friends more benevolent than the British.

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

[The Emperor] Vespasian's friends overcame his scruples by telling him that against Jews there could be no question of impiety, and that he ought to prefer expediency to decency when the two were incompatible.

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

All the officials responsible for giving ethical advice to the emperor were chased away.

While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

This Empire has but one danger: it is the danger by the combination of the three names, Ireland, United States and Canada.

This was discussed many times at different levels, and the problem was that it was a prince, a member of the imperial family. If it had been a Prime Minister, it would have been different. Our attitude toward empires was you know what. Absolutely negative. We did not know who could meet him because Stalin could not meet with him.

I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.