Empires Quotes

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

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world`s heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

I can only say that one`s individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?