Transient Power Quotes

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

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

.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

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

Governments come and go, but civilizations linger on.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Our mindset is not such that we will remain in power till eternity.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust.

Young man, I have lived in this house many years and have seen the occupants of the White House across the square come and go, and nothing you minor officials or the occupant of that house can do will affect the history of the world for long.

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.