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“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

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Book:The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces

Source: The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces

“Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Names Lost Revolution Empires Founders Posterity Vortex Great Empires

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.”

Stars Silence Higher Deeper Kingdoms Empires All Stars Great Empires

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.”

Men World Littles Action Silence Silent Rounds Empires One Love Noisy Great Empires Silent Man

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Fate of empires depends on the education of youth”

Fate Youth Depends Educational Empires Value Of Education Great Empires Classical Education

Author:Aristotle

“It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.”

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Author:Mickey Rourke

“To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.”

People Firsts May Government Purpose Found Nations Justice Fit Projects Sight Social Justice Investing Customers Empires Sole Shopkeepers Great Empires

Author:Adam Smith

“The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.”

Kind Littles Art Political Interest Regard Customers Empires Maxims Traders Great Empires

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.”

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Author:Juan Enriquez

“That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.”

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Book:Jan Vedder's Wife

Source: Jan Vedder's Wife

“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”

Greatness Adventure Great Things Empires Adventurer Great Empires

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

Has Beens Art Faith Education Fate Mankind Youth Depends Educational Convinced Empires Governing Famous Inspirational Value Of Education Education For All Great Empires Classical Education

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

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

Mind Littles Together Politics Politician Ill Empires Truest Magnanimity Little Minds Great Empires

Author:Edmund Burke

“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”

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Author:Tacitus

“But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.”

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Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.”

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Book:pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789

Source: pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789

“O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.”

Made Country Beautiful My Own Land West Thee Native Empires Boast Native Land Great Empires

Book:The microcosm, and other poems

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India,” with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.”

Long Saws Areas India British London Locals Queens Empires Colonialism Ruling Victoria Mutiny Reorganization Empresses Great Empires

Author:Webster Tarpley

“Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.”

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Author:John Ralston Saul

“Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.”

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Author:Publilius Syrus

“A great empire and little minds go ill together.”

Mind Littles Together Revolution Ill Empires Truest American Revolution Magnanimity Little Minds Great Empires

Author:Edmund Burke

“Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.”

Ifs Firsts May Style Succeed Meetings Killing Empires Rome Funny Business Work Humor Great Empires

Author:Quentin Crisp